For solo founders: go from idea to first paying customers without a team.
When you are building alone and need to find a market, price it, launch it, and close the first customers yourself. Use this when you have a product idea or early MVP and your next milestone is revenue. These aren't tip lists - each skill is an operating procedure with real numbers: a TAM/SAM/SOM model you can defend under diligence, a runnable unit-economics calculator (CAC, LTV, payback), pricing with a test plan, battlecard and landing-page templates, and cold email with the sub-90-word discipline that gets replies.
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Arranged in the author's recommended order. Walk through them in sequence, or open any one on its own.
Builds a defensible TAM/SAM/SOM market-sizing model with bottom-up and top-down triangulation and a low/base/high sensitivity range. Use when someone asks "how big is the market", "calculate my TAM", "size this opportunity", is preparing an investor deck market slide, or needs to defend a market number under diligence. Do NOT use for revenue projections of an existing business - use revenue-modeling instead.
View skillMap competitors across positioning, product, pricing, proof, and weaknesses, then turn the research into sales-ready battlecards with an update cadence. Use when someone asks "what are our competitors doing", "build a battlecard", "how do we compare to X", "why are we losing deals to X", or before a pricing or positioning decision. Do NOT use for designing long-term defensibility strategy - use competitive-moat instead; for a public comparison landing page use comparison-page-builder; for rep-facing objection scripts beyond the battlecard use objection-handler.
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