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THE STARTUP PLATFORM FORPROBLEM SOLVERS

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StartStak is a non-dilutive business planning platform supporting founders from $0-3M.

From Idea to Product Market Fit, we are the startup innovation platform that helps you de-risk, reduce your burn rate, protect equity and get to market with precision.

The StartStak experience saved us time, money and Founder equity defining our idea and end to end business strategy. The team helped minimize our burn rate and get our platform to market with speed and precision.

-JJ Elliot Hill, Careforward Co-Founder & CFO

JUST LAUNCHED: THE STARTSTAK ACADEMY

The StartStak Academy is a dedicated entrepreneurship business content streaming service designed for idea-stage founders who lack the specific knowledge, guidance and confidence necessary to get going. The Academy provides a modular, flexible, comprehensive, and high-impact learning experience grounded in StartStak’s unique startup framework. 

Unlike community-sourced materials or content libraries that lack coherence and program structure, StartStak delivers structured, guided learning journeys that close knowledge gaps – from vision to validation – in about 10-minutes per lesson.

Designed to be consumed in short, convenient sessions, we provide MBA-level entrepreneurship content for time-limited founders, allowing them to make consistent and meaningful progress without the high resource demand of full-time education, immersion programs, or expensive advisors. 

At a fraction of the cost of higher education, the StartStak Academy is designed to eliminate barriers to entry and accelerate entrepreneurship readiness by meeting individual founders wherever they are.

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OUR CURRICULUM

Module 1: The Company Vision
In Module 1, you will learn several foundational elements to building not just a plan for success, but one for sustainability. Here you will explore the following subjects as you begin to formulate or refine your own Company Vision:
  1. The Importance of a Clear Vision
  2. Establishing Foundational Core Values
  3. Defining Your Companyʼs Purpose
  4. Understanding and Crafting Your Mission Statement
  5. Exploring the BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal)
  6. Understanding Mission Statement vs BHAG
  7. Applying Your Vision Framework Going Forward
Module 2: Phase One of Business Strategy – The Idea
Module 2 is where we begin to flush out your idea in more detail. Here we will begin to analyze the environment around your idea or business and think through how your products and/or services fit within it. Learn how to approach the subjects below as we begin to dig deeper into your idea:
  1. Your Industry Problem Statement
  2. Performing an External Assessment
  3. Defining & Understanding Target Clients & Market
  4. Formulating the Business Design
  5. Executing a Competitive Market Scan
Module 3: Introduction to Idea Market Fit (IMF)
In Module 3, we will apply our learnings and understanding of the idea to validate its place in the market. At StartStak, we believe that this step is critical as it reduces the odds of costly pivots by ensuring products and services not only have demand, but have clear differentiators from the onset. Here is what you'll cover in Module 3:
  1. Introduction to Idea Market Fit (IMF)
  2. Conducting Your IMF Analysis
  3. Determining Next Steps
Module 4: Phase Two of Business Strategy – The Offering
In Module 4, you will learn the pathways necessary to begin operationalizing your business. In this phase, you will walk through the critical components of packaging your offering to ensure that your business is positioned effectively towards the potential customers who stand to benefit the most from its solutions. Here's what we'll cover in this phase:
  1. Developing Your Offering Plan (Pricing & Packaging)
  2. Competitive Positioning & Sustained Leadership in the Market
  3. Establishing a GTM Plan & Maturity Model
  4. Performing Your Team Assessment
  5. The Founding Team & Operations Plan
  6. Financial Models & Forecasts
  7. Company Risk Profile

DEMYSTIFY THE "BLACK BOX" OF STARTUP KNOWLEDGE

StartStak's Academy empowers aspiring or existing founders with MBA-level entrepreneurship education to support their idea to product-market fit journey. 

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THE LIGHTHOUSE EXPERIENCE

The Lighthouse is StartStak's AI-native business planning platform, designed to guide founders through an end-to-end methodology from ideation to market entry. This immersive, stateful experience leverages 30 specialized AI agents to deliver deep, contextual business design and expert-level strategy.

It enables founders to get to market with precision, reducing costly pivots and preserving equity by identifying flaws early in the idea stage of business planning.

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