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Build Weighted Founder Idea-Selection Matrix
A structured decision matrix that rates each candidate idea against weighted virtue criteria, computes the weighted score (SUMPRODUCT of weights and scores) per idea, and ranks them, so founders pick a direction on stated criteria instead of gut feel.
Business model canvas
A nine-box business model canvas where every box is a falsifiable hypothesis with a pass/fail test, plus a market-size note, so you know what to test first.
Buyer interview signal scoring for a burning problem
Each problem and solution averaged, banded, and flagged against the burning-problem and likely-adopted bars.
Candidate work-sample assignment spec
A ready-to-send work-sample assignment with a fixed time box, deliverable definition, and a weighted scoring rubric.
Cash-flow watch register
A structured cash-flow watch register listing the cash metrics to track (cash balance, net burn, runway months, revenue), each with a current value, an alert threshold, a direction, and an accountable owner, so cash flow is monitored obsessively rather than discovered too late.
Categorized keyword research list
A categorized keyword table (problem, user, action, feature, location) with a numeric volume and competition estimate and a relevance note for every term, plus a focus set of exactly the size you choose, marked in the table.
Classify an Innovation with the Three Disruption Litmus Tests
A deterministic function that takes the five disruption-test answers for an innovation and returns its disruption class (new-market, low-end, both, sustaining, or not-disruptable) plus which tests it passed, exactly per Christensen's three litmus tests.
Classify Burn-Rate Danger Level
A pure function that converts monthly burn and cash on hand into months of runway and a danger classification using runway-month thresholds, per Altman's rule that burn is only scary when runway is short.
Classify Capital Character: Patient/Impatient for Growth vs Profit
A deterministic function mapping a venture's funding terms onto Christensen's two-axis capital-character model and returning whether the capital is good or bad for a new-market disruption, with the quadrant label.
Classify email subject lines and assign the right precursor
A pure function precursor_for(intent) that maps an email intent code to the canonical subject-line precursor string, graded on hidden intent->precursor cases.
Classify Startup Growth-Engine Fit (Viral / Sticky / Paid)
A founder receives a structured engine-fit assessment that pins each of the three Lean-Startup growth engines to a pass/fail gate on its driving metric and names the recommended primary engine.
Classify whether to publish prices using the market 2x2
I give market size and homogeneity (with thresholds) and get the quadrant plus the publish-on-website recommendation, matching the book's transparency 2x2.