Practical, step-by-step guides to the documents and decisions every tech startup faces, linked to the founder tools that do the numbers.
A pitch deck that wins the meeting: the story, the slides, the numbers and the two versions you need.
Read the guide →A business plan that helps you run the company, not just raise money: what to include, how long it should be, and how to keep it alive.
Read the guide →The one-page business model for tech startups: what goes in each of the nine boxes, the order to fill them in, and a canvas you can fill in on this page.
Read the guide →Build the three financial forecasts investors, banks and your own board expect, in the right order, linked together, with assumptions you can defend.
Read the guide →Size your market the way investors trust: bottom-up, from real customers and real prices, with a worked example.
Read the guide →Plan the functions your tech startup needs at each stage, decide what your core team owns, and resource the rest with SkilledUp Life’s skilled volunteers.
Read the guide →Learn what customers really need before you build: who to talk to, what to ask, what to avoid and how to make sense of the answers.
Read the guide →Give angel investors the confidence they expect: what advance assurance is, what HMRC needs and the mistakes that cause delays.
Read the guide →A short, honest update every month builds trust, gets you help and makes the next raise easier. Here is a format that works.
Read the guide →Join tech founders who put execution before investment.