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The Daily Playbook
No fluff.
Just what works.
Daily guidance for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. Every post is one practical move you can run today, backed by data and the people who measured it, not vibes. Read one a day for ten days and you will think about your business differently.
Sell Before You Build: Get Paying Customers Before You Write Code
The number one reason startups die is building something nobody wants. Collect cash first. Here is the exact sequence.
Read Day 2 →Charge More: The Data-Backed Case for Raising Your Prices
Price is the fastest lever on profit, and you are almost certainly underpriced. The math and the method to fix it.
Read Day 3 →Distribution Beats Product: Why the Better Mousetrap Loses
Great products with no distribution die quietly. Pick your channel like your life depends on it, because it does.
Read Day 4 →Talk to Customers Without Lying to Yourself: The Mom Test
Most customer interviews collect compliments, not truth. Ask about their past, not your idea, and you get usable data.
Read Day 5 →Default Alive or Default Dead: The Only Cash Question That Matters
At current growth and burn, do you reach profitability before the money runs out? Most founders cannot answer. You will.
Read Day 6 →Unit Economics: The LTV-to-CAC Math That Decides If You Have a Business
If it costs more to win a customer than they are worth, growth makes you poorer. The four numbers every founder must know.
Read Day 7 →Say No to Almost Everything: Focus and the One Metric That Matters
Doing more is why you are stuck. Pick one metric, prioritize ruthlessly, and kill the rest. Here is the framework.
Read Day 8 →First Hires and Internal Ventures: Building a Team That Compounds
Hire too early and you die of burn. Hire wrong and you die of drag. For intrapreneurs, the rules are different. Read why.
Read Day 9 →Quit or Persevere: How to Kill a Startup Without Killing Yourself
The hardest decision in business, made with evidence instead of ego. The signals that say push, and the ones that say stop.
Read Day 10 →Want the whole autopsy?
These posts are the warm-up. Kill My Startup is the full playbook: four parts, twenty-three chapters, two scorecards.
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