business
13 curated learning paths about business. Each path delivers daily 5-minute drops to build real knowledge over time.
📈Understand Compound Interest
Turn compound interest from a vague formula into a reliable mental tool — calculate growth over time, apply the Rule of 72 in seconds, and reason clearly about savings, debt, and long-horizon decisions.
📋Learn the Lean Canvas: A One-Page Business Model for Startups
Pressure-test a startup idea on a single page instead of writing a plan nobody reads. Fill each of the nine boxes with evidence, then walk a real customer through it and capture their pushback.
📊Understand Unit Economics: LTV, CAC, Contribution Margin
Build LTV, CAC, contribution margin, and payback period from raw subscription data — then ship a one-page memo you can hand to an investor without flinching.
🎯Learn OKRs: Writing Objectives and Key Results That Actually Work
Draft a quarterly OKR set for your team — one ambitious objective, three measurable key results — by separating inspirational direction from numeric evidence the way Intel and Google actually used them.
💼Learn Porter's Five Forces: Reading Industry Structure
Write a one-page Five Forces memo for your own market — scoring buyers, suppliers, entrants, substitutes, and rivalry the way Porter meant, using worked examples from airlines, SaaS, and coffee.
🤝Learn BATNA: Your Best Alternative in Any Negotiation
Walk into your next negotiation — salary, vendor, or lease — with your walk-away point written down, the other side's estimated, and the deal zone mapped out, so fear stops making the call.
📊Learn Break-Even Analysis: When Does the Business Make Sense?
Classify the costs behind any small business, then calculate the exact unit count that turns losses into profit. Leave with a break-even chart built for your own idea, not a textbook example.
🥤Learn Jobs-to-be-Done: Why Customers 'Hire' Your Product
Learn how to run a real Jobs-to-be-Done interview and walk out with a defensible job statement — not another persona.
🎯Learn SPIN Selling: Situation, Problem, Implication, Need-Payoff
Walk into your next discovery call with a scripted sequence of Situation, Problem, Implication, and Need-Payoff questions — and leave knowing exactly which ones unlocked the prospect's real pain.
📊Learn SWOT Analysis Properly: Beyond the Four Boxes
Turn a lazy four-box SWOT into a rigorous, evidence-backed analysis, then pair strengths with opportunities in a TOWS matrix that produces four concrete strategic actions for any business you know.
🏴☠️Learn the AARRR Pirate Metrics: A Startup Funnel That Scales
Walk through all five AARRR stages — Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue — with real events mapped to each, then draft a working dashboard for your own product.
📊Learn the Kano Model: Prioritizing Features by Customer Delight
Map your product's features onto Kano's five categories, then run a real survey with five users to surface the delighters your roadmap is missing.
⭐Learn the North Star Metric: One Number That Captures Value
Pressure-test real company north stars against three hard criteria, then define and defend one for your own product. Leave with a metric your team can rally around — not another vanity dashboard.