{"title":"Ebooks","description":"\u003cp\u003eBusiness ebooks for founders and operators working on startup pivots, go-to-market, product strategy, AI pricing and fashion digital transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChoose a digital edition and check its product page for the included formats. Most paid ebooks include both EPUB and PDF in one download; the free Web3 research companion is a PDF.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-startup-gtm-diagnostic-ebook","title":"The Startup GTM Diagnostic (Ebook): How to Diagnose a Startup Go-to-Market Problem","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Startup GTM Diagnostic ebook is the 122-page pocket book by Nitin Kumar, in EPUB and PDF, for early-stage founders whose traction stays poor however many ways they sell.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoor traction at seed stage often comes from selling too many ways at once: a few direct deals, a self-serve plan, a reseller. Each channel looks cheap on its own spreadsheet, and together they split the round. At full cost, direct sales alone takes 51% of a median seed round’s yearly budget, and adding product-led growth takes it to 88%.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book’s answer for a seed-stage startup is one sales channel until it repeats. It adds up the full cost of each channel, tests the seven usual causes of a stalled channel in two weeks each, sets five tests a second channel must pass before you fund it, and ends with a 90-day plan back to one channel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eEbook files\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEPUB edition for reading in a compatible ebook app.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePDF edition that keeps the 122-page print layout.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBoth editions delivered together in one ZIP download.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eDownload\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eDownload the ZIP after purchase and extract its files. 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Founders who feel their startup is doing too many things rarely chose to build a second product. Each one began as a reasonable yes to a customer: a custom build for the biggest account, a buyer with its own roadmap, a pilot priced unlike everything else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book scores your offer on seven commitments, the user, buyer, trigger, workflow, value metric, price and sales channel it depends on, and counts how many answer to a different customer. Five or more means two companies sharing one round. The unwind ratio then divides the cost of fixing the split by the round you plan to raise, and over 0.40 that round cannot pay for the fix and for growth. The book ends with a 90-day plan back to one product, so you go into the raise with one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eEbook files\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEPUB edition for reading in a compatible ebook app.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePDF edition that keeps the 140-page print layout.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBoth editions delivered together in one ZIP download.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eDownload\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eDownload the ZIP after purchase and extract its files. 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