6X Company Building Canvas

As a leader of a startup, it is often hard to get everyone aligned in a quick and visual way on how to build the company. The 6X Company Building Canvas solves this problem. It provides a shared understanding of the startup’s growth issues and helps identify what key areas you should focus on. It is also a great way of reporting your weekly progress to the team and the board.

6X Company Building Canvas

As a leader of a startup, it is often hard to get everyone aligned in a quick and visual way on how to build the company. The 6X Company Building Canvas solves this problem. It provides a shared understanding of the startup’s growth issues and helps identify what key areas you should focus on. It is also a great way of reporting your weekly progress to the team and the board.

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Main Outcomes

From Strategy to Action

The 6X canvas helps break strategy down into manageable, easy-to-grasp pieces. Convert any lofty startup strategy into specific work. Rank, assess, and identify top issues to solve. Do it daily or weekly. Use the 6X Company Building Canvas to make strategy happen.

Focus, Focus, Focus

The 6X canvas was first developed in the X2 Labs Accelerator Program, to help new startups cope with the multitudes of new venture creation and company building. Today, any team has to Rank, assess the current status, and easily map out key items to solve. This creates focus, focus, focus.

Alignment

Use the 6X to drive alignment with your leadership team, your staff, and your board. It is a uniquely powerful visual way of securing buy-in, understanding, and alignment.

Use Case: Aquatech Startup

Aquatech startup, Digital Fish Farm has just shared the weekly 6X Company Building Canvas. This week, Product Development and Customer Development are number one and two respectively, in terms of importance. Channel development, ranked in third place, scores only three out of ten, raising multiple red flags. This weekly scorecard allows the team, management, and Board quickly assess, align and understand what is going on in the company. Notice the weekly status, scoring 34/60, down from 37/60 last week. Combined, the 6X canvas gives the founders an intelligent approach to look beyond just Product-Market Fit, to grow and scale the company by focusing on all six key areas to successful company growth.

Problem It Solves

✓ How can I get everyone aligned in a quick and visual way

✓ We need to align our startup team

✓ We need to get a shared understanding of the startup’s growth issues

✓ I want a good way of reporting to my team and my board

✓ I am a first-time founder and need some help to find the key areas I should focus on

✓ I want a simple one-pager for reporting our weekly progress

Who Is It For?

✓ Startups

✓ Scale-Ups

✓ Accelerators

✓ Incubators

✓ Consultants

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