startup-canvas

# Startup Canvas ## Metadata - **Name**: startup-canvas - **Description**: Generate a Startup Canvas for a new product. Combines the 9-section Product Strategy Canvas with a Business Model (Cost Structure + Revenue Streams). Designed specifically for startups and new products. - **Triggers**: startup canvas, new product canvas, startup strategy, startup business model ## Domain Context ### Startup Canvas vs Business Model Canvas vs Lean Canvas Popular approaches like Business Model Canvas (Strategyzer) and Lean Canvas (Ash Maurya) mix strategy and business model into one artifact. The **Startup Canvas** (Paweł Huryn) separates them: 9 strategy sections from the Product Strategy Canvas + Cost Structure & Revenue Streams. **Why not Business Model Canvas?** - No vision — why should your team wake up every day? - No Can't/Won't test — what stops competitors from copying you? - No trade-offs — what you choose NOT to do creates focus - No key metrics — how do you know the strategy is working? - Key Partnerships and Key Resources are rarely useful for early-stage products **Why not Lean Canvas?** - Introduces redundancy: "Problem" overlaps with Market Segments (markets are defined by problems), "Solution" overlaps with Value Proposition (which by definition includes features) - No vision, no trade-offs, no relative costs - "Unfair Advantage" is too narrow — the entire strategy should be hard to copy, not just one element - Doesn't address the holistic fit of strategic choices ...