Sahil Lavingia, the founder of Gumroad, has developed 10 Skills based on his own book “The Minimalist Entrepreneur” to better assist entrepreneurs in decision-making with AI.

The skills follow the book’s progression:

  1. Community — Start by finding your people
  2. Validate — Make sure the problem is worth solving
  3. Build — Ship a manual process, then productize it
  4. Processize — Turn your product idea into a manual process you can deliver today
  5. Sell — Get to 100 customers one by one
  6. Price — Charge something from day one
  7. Market — Build an audience through content
  8. Grow — Stay profitable, grow sustainably
  9. Culture — Build the house you want to live in
  10. Review — Apply minimalist principles to every decision