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02Course · Validate

Your riskiest assumptions

Course 6 of 9 in the Start a Business with AI Program

You write down what you're taking for granted and know which one to test first.

What you take away

A Lean Canvas and your assumptions ranked

The Lean Canvas is by Ash Maurya and is used under its CC BY-SA license, with credit.

What you do

Rank your assumptions by risk

How you learn

  1. 01

    The idea

    The theory in a short video, with its author and a verified public case.

  2. 02

    Worked case

    The same theory applied step by step to an example business that stays with you across the route.

  3. 03

    A case from your industry

    A business from your own industry, half built, for you to complete. Your agent checks your work against the rubric.

  4. 04

    Your business

    The full task on your own business. Your agent asks questions, checks each criterion quoting your work and points out your next step.

    In the last pass, this is the task:Rank your assumptions by risk

Supporting authors

  • Running LeanAsh Maurya

From the Start a Business with AI Program

  1. The job your customer hires you for
  2. Talk to 10 customers without selling
  3. Your value proposition on one page
  4. Your business model on one page
  5. Prototype your customer's experience
  6. Your riskiest assumptions
  7. Your minimum experiment
  8. What must be true for this to make money
  9. Validate and launch an offer