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Unusual Ventures' Strategy Memo Template
Mission → Vision → Strategy → Goals → Roadmap
- Mission: What are we trying to achieve?
- Vision: What does the world look like when we’ve achieved it?
- Strategy: How will we achieve it?
- Goals: How will we measure our progress towards it?
- Roadmap: What do we need to build to get there?
Lenny Rachitsky • Getting better at product strategy
Sarah Wong added
sari and added
The five essentials ingredients to any company strategy document are:
Mission - What are you meant to achieve
Vision - What does it look like once you’ve achieved it
Goal - How do you concretely know you’ve achieved it
Strategy - What is the path to achieving it
Strategic pillars - Three to five key bets that the company needs to make
review.firstround.com • The Secret to a Great Planning Process - Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite
Simon Joliveau Breney added
The five essentials ingredients to any company strategy document are:1. Mission - What are you meant to achieve2. Vision - What does it look like once you’ve achieved it3. Goal - How do you concretely know you’ve achieved it4. Strategy - What is the path to achieving it5. Strategic pillars - Three to five key bets that the company needs to make
review.firstround.com • The Secret to a Great Planning Process - Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite
Ted Glasnow added
21: strategy- Vision: your inspiring picture of what everything looks likeStrategic framework: market we are going after, what success looks like and our big bets to win mktbreaking down the problem to understand who you are going after and what it takes to win themRoadmap:Work backwards from vision. What are we doing to get there (not a commitment... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • Jackie Bavaro on getting better at product strategy, what exactly is strategy, PM pitfalls to avoid, advancing your career, getting into management, and much more
Tom So and added
A strategy is a high-level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty, designed through recognizing the challenge (diagnosis), setting a direction to overcome it (guiding policy), and detailing steps to implement the policy (coherent actions).
Packy McCormick • In Defense of Strategy
sari added
Here’s our template for developing Key Initiatives:1. Strategy2. List of key projects3. Expected timeline and impact4. Resources needed5. Risks and dependencies
review.firstround.com • The Secret to a Great Planning Process - Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite
Ted Glasnow added
Company purpose Start here: define your company in a single declarative sentence. This is harder than it looks. Getting caught up in listing features is easy instead of communicating your mission. Problem Describe the pain of your customer. How is this addressed today, and what are the shortcomings of current solutions? Solution Explain your eureka... See more
Sequoia Capital • Writing a Business Plan
Mo Shafieeha added