Templates
Some useful templates for thinking about startups
Energy Decision Timeline
The Energy Decision Timeline is a creative problem solving technique and will
help you to very clearly compare your resources with problems. It is
particularly a helpful tool for startups to clearly allocate their resources to
certain actions and activities to solve top problems and focus on priorities.
[details|pptx]
Plan of Attack Radial
The Plan of Attack Radial helps you relate and combine important
components of your business plan. These include
value proposition, marketing strategy, partnerships, resources and segmentation
of your business.
[details|pptx]
Startup Financials
The Startup Financials template helps you plan your financials and balance sheet. Includes a 3 year roadmap and projections along with 1 year detailed cash flow analysis.
[xls]
Frameworks
Some tools and frameworks for doing analysis related to startups
TAM SAM SOM
TAM = Your Total Available or Addressable Market (everyone you wish to reach with your product)
SAM = Your Segmented Addressable Market or Served Available Market (the portion of TAM you will target)
SOM = Your Share of the Market (the subset of your SAM that you will realistically reach – particularly in the first few years of your business)
[docx]
Business Model Canvas
The Business Model Canvas is a strategic management framework for developing new
or documenting existing business models. It is a visual chart with elements
describing a firm's value proposition, infrastructure, customers, and finances.
It assists firms in aligning their activities by illustrating potential trade
offs.
[pdf]
Porter Five Forces Analysis
Porter five forces analysis is a framework for industry analysis and business
strategy development. It draws upon industrial organization economics to
derive five forces that determine the competitive intensity and therefore
attractiveness of a market. Attractiveness in this context refers to the overall
industry profitability. An "unattractive" industry is one in which the
combination of these five forces acts to drive down overall profitability. A
very unattractive industry would be one approaching "pure competition", in which
available profits for all firms are driven to normal profit.
[pdf]