Nascent Startups 🪺 is the on-ramp to The Lean Startup

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You have an idea for a tech business. Now what? What’s the best first step?

You’re at the nascent stage when you have the kernel of an idea, but no customers, no product and no funding. You want to create an impactful business, maybe a “unicorn” 🦄 worth $1B. But you’ve never raised investment, let alone sold a company. For your first steps, follow the Nascent Startups 🪺 path.

Entrepreneurs today often jump into Lean Startup methodology but that’s for early-stage startups. The Lean premise is “Our customers stopped liking our product and our investors stopped giving us funding. Here’s our toolkit.” Achieving product-market fit (PMF) requires a product and customers. Yet so many nascent-stage founders make PMF their (unattainable) goal. It’s like using a map of New York 🗽 to navigate San Francisco 🌁.

This is why Nascent Startups🪺 is your on-ramp to The Lean Startup. Right now, don’t build a minimum-viable product. And definitely don’t validate a hypothesis nor pitch investors. Instead use the Nascent path to quickly gauge whether your pursuing a 1-in-1,000,000 distraction 💩 or a 1-in-100 opportunity 💪.

Nascent Startups 🪺: How to spend your first 100 days and $100 when you have an idea for a tech business.

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