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LeanPivot Playbooks

The complete startup playbook series. Nine comprehensive guides covering every stage of your startup journey—from idea to scale.

9 Playbooks
85+ Chapters
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LeanPivot Playbooks - Your Startup Journey

Your Startup Journey

The playbooks follow the natural progression of building a startup. Start with the foundation, then progress through each stage.

Ideation
00-01
Validation
02-03
MVP
04
Launch
05-06
Growth
07
Investment
08

All Playbooks

Click on any playbook to start reading. Each is designed to be self-contained while building on concepts from earlier playbooks.

Why These Playbooks?

Evidence-Based Entrepreneurship

These playbooks synthesize the best thinking from Lean Startup, Design Thinking, Jobs-to-be-Done, and modern growth engineering into a cohesive, actionable system. They're designed to help you fail fast on paper, not in the market—saving months of wasted effort and capital.

Research-Backed

Built on frameworks from Eric Ries, Steve Blank, Strategyzer, and modern SaaS growth playbooks.

Tool-Integrated

Each playbook connects to AI-powered tools that help you implement what you learn immediately.

Progressive

Designed to follow your startup's natural journey from idea through validation to scale.

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Ready to Start Your Journey?

Begin with Playbook 00 to build the cognitive foundation for evidence-based entrepreneurship.

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