The Startup Toolkit – an online tool for exploring your startup

Posted by John King on November 19, 2010 under Advice, News | Be the First to Comment

One of the most important things about starting a business is that you need to write stuff down. When you keep everything in your head, you end up ignoring contradictory evidence, forgetting important details, and generally making poor decisions.

The Startup Toolkit, a simple but effective website developed by Rob Fitzpatrick,  is a quick way to write down the big, important building blocks of your startup. The goal here isn’t to tell you what to do — it’s just meant to help you to make your own good decisions.

It is based in large part on the worksheets and questions from Steve Blank’s book The 4 Steps to the Epiphany. The visual layout is based on the work done by Osterwalder, covered in great detail in the beautiful Business Model Generation book. Ash Maurya has also contributed his own twist on the canvas specifically for web startups. The risk dashboard is straight out of the pages of Komisar & Mullin’s Getting to Plan B.

Start planning your startup now by using The Startup Toolkit!