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By rickmanelius
12 battle-tested founder skills from Save Your Startup by Rick Manelius
Walk through every cost and revenue assumption in your business model using structured checklists. Surfaces hidden risks, flags unknowns, and builds a complete assumptions map.
Identify and break the biggest bottleneck in your startup using a diagnostic loop based on Goldratt's Theory of Constraints. Walk through a five-step process to find what is limiting your throughput and systematically fix it.
Self-assessment across four dimensions — Skills, Experience, Leadership, Doing Hard Things — on a 2x2 of Capability vs. Willingness. From Chapter 2 of Save Your Startup by Rick Manelius.
Break a large goal down into a connected hierarchy from decade-level vision to today's next action. Systematically chunks across seven time horizons so every daily effort connects to the bigger picture.
Work through a hard decision by naming fears, writing mitigations, and rating actual severity. Adapted from Tim Ferriss's fear-setting framework with a numerical rating system by Rick Manelius. From Chapter 7 of Save Your Startup.
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Claude Code skills based on Save Your Startup by Rick Manelius.
In Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add rickmanelius/skills
/plugin install save-your-startup
That's it — Claude Code will fetch the repo and register all 12 skills automatically.
This book stands on the shoulders of giants. You'll see well cited playbooks in the list below, which I've adapted for startups.
| Skill | Command | When to use |
|---|---|---|
| Paint Done | /sys:paint-done | Define "done" before any work begins |
| Chunk | /sys:chunk | Break a 10-year vision into today's next action |
| High Medium Low | /sys:high-medium-low | Define scope tiers so you build the right amount |
| Assumptions Audit | /sys:assumptions-audit | Surface hidden cost and revenue assumptions |
| Napkin Math | /sys:napkin-math | Walk backward from a revenue target to daily growth |
| Capability Willingness Matrix | /sys:capability-willingness-matrix | Assess if you have the skills AND willingness |
| Founder Type Check | /sys:founder-type-check | Honest check — delusional, pretender, or real deal |
| Fear Setting | /sys:fear-setting | Name fears, write mitigations, rate severity |
| WIIFM Check | /sys:wiifm-check | 7 questions every prospect silently asks |
| Five Finger Pitch | /sys:five-finger-pitch | Build a 5-finger, 5-minute verbal pitch |
| Ruthless Elimination | /sys:ruthless-elimination | Reclaim 5-15 hours/week with Delete, Delegate, Delay |
| Break Bottleneck | /sys:break-bottleneck | Find and fix your #1 throughput constraint |
Over 50 candidate skills were identified from the book — these 12 scored highest on universality, power, and AI-transferability. See the full ranking and file an issue if you'd like another one included.
Not sure where to begin? See starter-questions.md for 2-3 sample prompts per skill you can copy-paste to try them out immediately.
Built by Rick Manelius — repeat founder, Techstars All-Star Mentor.
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