Entrepreneurship · Library course
Decide Whether You Should Start a Company
Price what you would give up, test whether it matters that it's you, compute the most you can afford to lose, and write down a dated yes, not yet or no.
- Beginner
- 19 lessons
- 42 min to complete
7-day preview, no card needed. The course is in the library the day your academy goes live.
Entrepreneurship
What it covers
What your people will learn.
- Entrepreneurship
Most people deciding whether to start a company spend their time on the idea. The decision turns on things they can check and usually don't: what they would give up, whether it matters that it is them, and how long they can last.
The odds of a company that has never existed can't be looked up, so failure rates and expected-value spreadsheets give false comfort. This course replaces them with what you can know. You price the life you would keep by not starting, take an honest inventory of your fit, read your own runway instead of the market's mood, and take the now-or-never feeling apart before it gets a vote. Then you set the most you are willing to lose, look at what a part-time start would cost, and face the year-three afternoon when the company is working and you are doing less of the work you love.
You walk away with a one-page decision memo, dated, with a yes, a not yet that names what has to change, or a no, and a review date you can hold yourself to.
Who it's for
Would-be founders: have an idea and the itch, and want to decide on purpose instead of drifting into it.
People weighing a leap: are thinking about leaving a stable job and need an honest read on their runway and timing first.
Operators and second-time founders: want a clear way to test fit and opportunity cost before the next venture.
The lessons
19 lessons, in order.
About 42 min to complete. Add the course and every lesson is yours to publish as it is, or to edit.
- What You Are Really Deciding1 min
- Price the Road You Don't Take1 min
- When the Odds Are Made Up1 min
- Answer the Question Your Partner Will Ask3 min
- Price What Starting Costs Knowledge Check1 min
- Whether It Matters That It's You2 min
- Two Ways to Misread Your Fit1 min
- The Idea From a Market Report4 min
- Time It to Your Runway2 min
- The Now-or-Never Feeling2 min
- Answer the Voice That Says Now8 min
- Read Your Fit and Your Timing Knowledge Check1 min
- Work Out the Most You Can Lose2 min
- Start Before You Quit2 min
- The Runway Comes Back Short4 min
- The Person You Stop Being2 min
- Read the Six Lines and Decide2 min
- Write and Date Your Decision Memo2 min
- Bound the Loss and Decide Knowledge Check1 min
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