Free pivot tools

Free Pivot Tools

Working tools from Nitin Kumar’s pivot books and articles, free for founders. Enter your email and the download opens on this page.

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Product-Market Fit Pivot Scorecard

The scorecard from The Product-Market Fit Pivot, ready to fill in each quarter for each customer segment.

  • Eight product-market fit signals with pass marks and a column for your own numbers
  • Scoring bands that say whether to scale, iterate or pivot
  • The pivot each failing pattern calls for, with the Facebook and Zillow cases

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Pivot Field Guide

The two maps from The Business Pivot and The Strategic Pivot as scoring sheets, for a leadership team to fill in before choosing a pivot.

  • Four posture questions that place the company on the cash-valuation map
  • The pivot paths between postures, sorted by how often they work
  • A seven-area core threat diagnostic that picks the strategic pivot design

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When a tool calls for a pivot, The Startup Pivot Playbook sets out the order of moves, and The Product Pivot maps each type of product pivot to the situation it fits.