Achieve Problem Go/No Go
With Business Model Design
Validate The Right Problem to Solve
Achieve Founder/Problem Fit
Start Building Your Team
Get Ready to Take Off
for only ÂŁ100
Begin transforming Your Startup into a Revenue-Generating Machine
You’ve completed Level 1: Foundations.
You’ve developed the right mindsets, clarified your vision, identified early adopters, and begun moving.
Now it’s time to start building something people actually want to buy - and scaling it.
This is where most founders crash and burn. They start building...
❌ Without validating the problem
❌ Without Founder/Problem Fit
❌ Without a cofounder
❌ Without a real plan
Level 2: Business Model Design exists to make sure YOU don’t.
We focus on transformation, traction and truth - the truth of whether you have what it takes to win the startup race.
🔍 1. Validate the Problem (Go/No Go)
“If you can’t validate the problem, stop everything.” - Ash Maurya
Learn how to interview customers the right way to reveal real pain.
Use Leanstack’s Problem Validation Workflow to reach a Problem Go/No Go decision, fast.
Save yourself months (or years) of wasted effort on a problem no one cares about.
👤 2. Achieve Founder/Problem Fit
Define your Minimum Success Criteria – how much money, freedom, or impact you need.
Use Fermi Estimates to ballpark the size of your opportunity.
Assess Personal Fit – Is this the right problem for you to solve?
You must believe in this problem enough to commit the next 3–5 years of your life. We’ll help you test that.
âś… This step protects you from shiny-object syndrome and future regret.
🤝 3. Find & Secure Your Ideal CoFounder
You’ll go faster with someone who shares your mission.
You’ll get structured, expert-led training on:
How to Find a CoFounder (including trusted tools & filters)
How to Write a CoFounders Agreement (so things don’t blow up later)
How to Add a CoFounder in Leanstack to build a startup together
Founders with the right cofounder are more than twice as likely to raise investment and scale.
Selections Playbook - Choose the right idea + customer sement
Customer Factory Tool - Visualise how customers flow through your funnel
Traction Roadmap - Focus only on what drives growth
Story Pitch Tool - Craft a compelling narrative for users and investors
Rollout Plan - Plan a low-risk, high-learning product launch
You’ll learn how to build momentum across the only five metrics that matter - Pirate Metrics (AARRR):
Acquisition → Activation → Retention → Revenue → Referral
"MVPs are for learning. MRPs are for earning." - James Shoemark
You’ll learn how to:
Design the smallest version of your product that makes money
Test it quickly with real customers
Get your first revenue without building unnecessary features
This is the bridge between idea and investment - most founders never cross it.
You will.
Using what you’ve discovered, we’ll guide you to:
Position your startup with laser precision
Differentiate yourself in a noisy market
Make customers say, “I need this”
Your Value Proposition is your biggest asset - it’s what converts visitors into buyers and investors into believers.
This is the cheapest £100 mistake you’ll never make.
"Founders who skip this stage build the wrong product, with the wrong team, for the wrong customer - and pay for it in years of wasted time."
This programme compresses 18 months of trial and error into just 1 focused week.
âś… Real tools.
âś… Real frameworks.
âś… Real traction.
âś… Real results.
And it sets you up for Level 3: Full Membership, where you develop the ability to meet the entry criteria to enter our ÂŁ100,000 Startup Race.
Aspiring entrepreneurs who’ve finished Foundations
Founders with early ideas or prototypes
Startups looking to validate, gain revenue, and get investor-ready
Visionaries who want to win The Startup Race
đź”’ Problem Validated (Go/No Go) - Know when to move forward, or stop smart
🔑 Founder/Problem Fit - Build something you want to do long-term
đź§ CoFounder Strategy & Agreement - Share the load, avoid founder fallout
đź’¸ MRP Designed & Tested - Get paid to validate, not just build
📊 Pirate Metrics Clarity - Know where your funnel leaks, and fix it
🗺️ Traction Roadmap - Stay focused, accelerate growth
đź’Ą Compelling Value Proposition - Attract customers and investors like a magnet
If you’re stuck without traction, cofounder conflict, or building the wrong thing - it’s already costing you.
ÂŁ100 gets you clarity. Confidence. And the tools to win.
We only open this to committed founders. If that’s you:
👉 Join Level 2 Now – Business Model Design
"You’re one decision away from building something real."
Ambitious to take it to the next level?
Sign up for Full Membership
Do you have the resources and ambition to make a light-speed jump in your startup's developement?
Our Full Membership programme provides you with Leanstack level-3 group coaching each month to achieve the following in just 10 weeks:
Validate Your Solution
Validate Demand for Your Solution
Find Problem/Solution Fit
Find a Unique and compalling name for your startup
Achieve Incorporation Go/No Go
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