#1 - Foundations Course
If you want to suceed in winning the £100,000 or £1,000,000 Startup Race, you need to learn the Silicon Valley Startup Secrets invented in 2008.
Begin your journey to learning the Startup Secrets, winning a Startup Race and Raising Investment by signing up for Foundations, the first level of our Preparation Programme for only £9.97.
The First Startup Secret - Mindset Beats Effort
In his book The Lean Startup, Eric Reis said he could have learned his most important lesson in two weeks rather than investing 6-months coding something nobody wanted if he had the right Mindsets.
Ash Maurya's platform, Leanstack enables us to learn the three most important mindsets through a tale of two entrepreneurs - Steve and Larry:
Mindset #1: The business model is the product.
Mindset #2: Love the problem, not your solution.
Mindset #3: Traction is the goal.
The Second Startup Secret - We Are Living in a New World
Ash Maurya also explains that we are living in a new world and the rules have changed. People who try to build a startup for the first time, often follow the old rules of "Build It And They Will Come" and are destined to be amongst the 90% of startups that fail in their first two years.
Your life is too short to follow the old rules. The new rules you need to follow are:
Rule #1: Avoid the "Build it and they will come" trap
Rule #2: Build what customers want by engaging them continuously.
Rule #3: Practice the Lean Startup method of Build/Measure/Learn
The Third Startup Secret - Speed is Your Advantage
As of 2024, there are over 600 million entrepreneurs worldwide and they started 100 million startups in 2024. That's a rate of 1 startup every 3 seconds!
The good news, is you can give yourself an unfair advantage and easily beat 100 million startup founders by combining the three mindsets above with your Speed of Learning.
Tesla is a great example of beating their competitors with Speed of Learning. It took them only 2.5 years to get their first car to market instead of the usual 10!
As Ash Maurya says, "you only need to go faster than your immediate competition to gain a learning advantage."
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The other Silicon Valley Startup Secrets are only discoverable in level two of our Preparation Programme - Business Model Design:
Discover how to optimise your value proposition
Discover how to transform your Startup into a £10,000,000 Scaleup
Discover how to use Pirate Metrics to measure what matters
Discover how to pitch Your Business Model not a 30-Slide Deck
Discover how to Invite a CoFounder to increase your investability
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