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Found 17 Skills
Review any business decision, plan, or strategy through the minimalist entrepreneur lens. Use when someone wants a gut-check on a business decision, wants to simplify their approach, or needs to decide between options.
YC office hours skill. Used by founders for product diagnostic with six forcing questions, premise challenges, alternatives, and a design doc. Use when the user wants founder coaching, startup strategy feedback, or a mock office-hours conversation.
Startup diagnostic router. Use FIRST when a founder doesn't know where to start, has multiple overlapping problems, or asks a vague question like 'what's wrong with my startup', 'why aren't people buying', 'what should I focus on', 'where do I even begin', 'nothing is working'. Routes to the right framework from the 14 available skills — or tells you when no framework fits and you just need to go talk to people. This is the entry point. Use it before reaching for any specific skill.
Business model design and validation using Business Model Canvas, Lean Canvas, and Value Proposition Canvas. Use when designing new business models, validating startup ideas, achieving product-market fit, or innovating existing business models.
Trigger: Invoke when you start from scratch with extremely limited resources and need to find the minimum viable entry point first to build a stable base. Common signals include bootstrap, MVP, pilot, first foothold, and small team startup. Trigger when starting from almost nothing and needing a viable foothold before scaling up. Use this skill to build a durable base, start small, and grow from a validated nucleus instead of scattering effort.