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⇱ Click: How to Make What People Want


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From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint

A proven system for building products that click with customers β€” the Foundation Sprint

Click, the latest book from Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky, introduces a brand new method for starting big projects the smart way, based on our work with 300+ products and businesses. Make better decisions, craft strategy that works, and set your team up for success with the two-day Foundation Sprint.
β€œClick is the new playbook for building the future. Before you start building your company, read this book.”
Reid Hoffman‍
Founder of LinkedIn
β€œThe missing manual for early-stage founders.”
Lenny Rachitsky
Lenny’s Newsletter & Podcast
β€œA must-read for startups or anyone building a new product.”
Katie Dill
Head of design at Stripe

The big idea with the Foundation Sprint is to capture the essential strategy behind your new product, then formulate a clear hypothesis you can validate with real customers. This is our best method for starting big projects β€” and it’s the sprint we use most often with our portfolio companies at Character Capital.

The Foundation Sprint increases the success rate for new products and companies by helping you:

  • Leverage your advantages to radically differentiate from the competition
  • Identify an opinionated point-of-view on your customer, their problem, and your solution
  • Tap into your unique motivation, insight, and capability as a team
  • Craft a clear, testable Foundation Hypothesis for your product or company
  • Navigate the uncertainty of starting something new with an actionable plan for exactly what to do
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Run your own Foundation Sprint

If you want to run a Foundation Sprint with your team, here are the best ways to get going:

After you by the book, be sure to come back here and claim the Click Bonus Pack, which includes:

  • 29-page Foundation Sprint Worksheets
  • Foundation Sprint Templates for your team
  • Our official Foundation Sprint Miro board‍

If you want more help, please email us at jakeandjz@character.vc and we’ll see what we can do.

About the authors

Jake Knapp is co-founder and general partner at Character Capital and a New York Times bestselling author. Previously, he helped build Gmail and Microsoft Encarta, cofounded Google Meet, and was a partner at Google Ventures. He lives on Orcas Island in Washington state.

John Zeratsky is co-founder and general partner at Character Capital and a New York Times bestselling author. Previously, JZ was a partner at Google Ventures and a designer at YouTube, Google, and FeedBurner, a startup which was acquired by Google in 2007. He lives in Milwaukee.

Together, Jake and JZ are the authors of Sprint, Click, and Make Time and the creators of the Foundation Sprint and the Design Sprint. They have helped more than 300 teams design new products and bring them to market, including those at Google, Microsoft, YouTube, Slack, Uber, and One Medical Group. Their methods for innovation and rapid collaboration have been adopted by Airbnb, Amazon, LEGO, MIT, Mercedes-Benz, Harvard Business School, the University of Oxford, and many other organizations.

Get started with the Foundation Sprint today

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