Make a hard call, honestly.
A one-page decision memo plus the pre-mortem prompt that makes it honest. Frame a real decision in it and the gaps in your own thinking show up before the decision does.
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A real first-page preview of Pre-Mortem + Decision Memo template (Google Doc).
What's on the page
The whole memo, decision, options, and the pre-mortem.
- 01The decision
One sentence. If you can't, you're not ready to decide.
- 02The options
Including the one you're pretending isn't there.
- 03The pre-mortem
It's a year later and this failed. Why?
- 04The call + assumptions
What you decided, and what has to be true.
Built lean before lean was fashionable
We’ve built useful software against much bigger odds.
Nick Horob and Jaryd Krishnan built Harvest Profit into a leading farm-management software business with a six-person team and $280,000 in outside funding. They competed with companies employing 10 to 20× more people and, in some cases, raising roughly 100× more capital before John Deere acquired Harvest Profit in 2020.
Nerd Out carries forward the same belief: stay close to the problem, use technology well, and build genuinely useful products and businesses without a bloated team or budget.
Read Nick’s founder story ↗- $280K
- raised
- 6-person
- team
- Acquired
- by John Deere · 2020
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