<story><title>Got a startup idea? Validate it with the Startup Toolkit</title><url>http://thestartuptoolkit.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robfitz</author><text>Hey guys, I put this together as a easier way to visualize &amp;#38; update your business hypotheses.&lt;p&gt;Writing down the beliefs your startup is based on is crucial... it keeps you focused on risks instead of features, makes communication w/ team &amp;#38; investors easier, and stops you from ignoring the evidence. Yet most people don&apos;t do it (and almost no one consistently updates them).&lt;p&gt;I thought Steve Blank&apos;s customer development worksheets were a good start, but it&apos;s hard to update quickly and doesn&apos;t provide an overview. The canvas you see on the app is a modification of the Business Model Generation canvas, which I re-vamped to better suit startups.&lt;p&gt;Hope it&apos;s handy.</text></comment>
<story><title>Got a startup idea? Validate it with the Startup Toolkit</title><url>http://thestartuptoolkit.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edw519</author><text>My first thought was that this would be silly.  Until I went inside and saw for myself.  Very thought provoking, an exercise definitely worth my while.&lt;p&gt;Until I read this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;We&apos;ll try our best to preserve your data, but no guarantees. Your canvas is secured by obscurity, which is to say it&apos;s not very secure at all. Anyone with your canvas&apos; URL may view and edit it. If and when we add a paywall, we&apos;ll make sure you can export any existing data.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, how hard would it be to just fix this first?&lt;p&gt;I think you&apos;re really on the right track to something good.  But until you fix this, I&apos;ll just use my own text editor to save my thoughts on my own hard drive.</text></comment>