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The Founder's Decision Toolkit

A working set of tools for making the hard calls a founder faces every week.

Who this is for

Early founders and product leaders deciding what to build, what to drop, and how to choose under uncertainty.

What you'll get

You'll have a repeatable process for framing decisions, testing ideas, and focusing a team.

The path

Step 1 · Frameworks

Product-Market Fit

Start with the only thing that matters early: is there real demand before you scale?

Step 2 · Frameworks

Jobs to Be Done

Learn what customers are really 'hiring' your product to do.

Step 3 · Frameworks

Build-Measure-Learn

Turn ideas into cheap experiments instead of expensive guesses.

Step 4 · Decision Tools

First principles

Break inherited constraints and reason up from what's actually true.

Step 5 · Decision Tools

Six Thinking Hats

Make better group decisions by separating the modes of thinking.

Step 6 · Decision Tools

Eisenhower Matrix

Protect the important from the merely urgent as the chaos grows.

Step 7 · Frameworks

OKRs

Focus the whole team on a few measurable outcomes that matter.

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