startup-analysis

Evaluate a startup job offer by checking runway and funding history, equity terms (strike price, preference stack, dilution), career growth scope, and culture signals from Glassdoor and employee tenure. The job-applicant framework weights financial stability and career growth most heavily and ends with a join/pass verdict.

Startup due diligence covers market size (TAM/SAM/SOM), product-market fit signals, unit economics like CAC, LTV, and burn multiple, team quality, and defensibility moats. The VC framework scores each area and produces a verdict from Strong Pass to Strong Invest.

The analysis uses public data: founding year, funding rounds and investors, product and pricing, traction signals, founder backgrounds, and recent news gathered via web search. If public information is insufficient, provide the company's website URL, Crunchbase link, or pitch deck for an accurate analysis.

Yes, but with caveats. For early-stage or low-profile startups, the skill asks for the company website or other links before proceeding, then makes informed inferences from indirect signals like hiring pace and customer logos while stating confidence levels instead of fabricating metrics.

Key metrics include burn multiple, CAC payback, net revenue retention, runway months, and the Rule of 40. The CEO framework benchmarks these by stage and maps them to a health grade from Critical to Exceptional.