How to Stress-Test Your Startup Before Launch
A step-by-step framework for stress-testing a business idea before you spend money on it. Covers financial pre-mortem, competitive pressure tests, unit-economics inversion, and how to interpret failure signals when they show up in modeled numbers.
Key points covered in this post
- Financial pre-mortem: model 3-5 realistic failure paths, not just the base case
- Unit economics inversion: work backward from break-even, not forward from optimism
- Competitive pressure tests: what happens when a well-funded competitor cuts price 30%?
- Cash runway sensitivity: which single variable, if wrong by 20%, kills you?
- Founder-market fit sanity check: honest self-assessment beats every framework
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