<aside> <img src="/icons/info-alternate_gray.svg" alt="/icons/info-alternate_gray.svg" width="40px" /> What this is: A weekly curated list of educational resources for startup founders, compiled by the team at @Consorvia
<aside> 👇🏽 If you’re at idea stage
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**Take the Big Five Personality test, the DISC assessment and the Total 24 Character Strengths Report** Then start building your Founder Philosophy as a foundation for Idea Validation. Don't forget to dig into the Nature of Value and then hone your Storytelling skills—they'll be crucial throughout your startup journey.
<aside> 👇🏽 If you’re currently building, and…
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You’re planning to fundraise:
Familiarize yourself with our Fundraising Guide, which aims to prepare you with everything you need for a successful round. And don’t forget to craft your company Manifesto then get your legal t’s and i’s crossed and dotted.
You’re finding product-market fit:
Make finding Product-Market Fit your primary goal. Understand different archetypes of product-market fit to assess your product's positioning. Continuously refine your vision through customer feedback. Remember, the most successful founders and startups are hyper-focused on making something people want and obsession talking to users. Don’t get distracted.
You’re cultivating leadership skills:
Quick Tip: Have 50% of your calendar free, 25% will go for emergency and you’ll only have 25% left for your own thinking.
You’re scaling your growth strategy:
Consider a systems’ approach; set stretchy goals and define clear trade-offs across priorities. Develop an information architecture that enables you to generate market insights. Experiment quickly and cheaply to keep learning without sacrificing your priorities. And finally, pick one north star at the beginning that you would be betting your company on, and monitor only a few (3-5) metrics. Less is more! A frequent mistake is having too many metrics that you monitor.