Early-stage startups fail less from “bad ideas” and more from chaos: unclear roles, unpredictable progress, and no shared cadence. When your team is part-time and volunteer-driven, chaos is not a nuisance — it is a killer.
Scrum works because it creates a shared language for progress. It turns a group of people into a team by making work visible, time-bounded, and accountable. The Zero-Capital Startup Framework aims to do the same for lean startups.
The Zero-Capital Startup Framework is SCRUM for lean startups.
Three layers that work together
To keep things practical, this project has three layers:
The Book explains the reasoning, tradeoffs, and examples. The Methodology is the handbook: roles, rituals, and checklists you can run weekly. The SeedStart platform is the execution layer: tasks, hiring, recognition, and a visible cadence.
What makes it different
The method is simple, but not easy: recruit the team earlier than you feel ready, protect cadence harder than you protect features, and ship to production sooner than your ego wants.
You will see three principles repeat in every chapter: team-first, cadence-first, and production-first.
Your next action
Don’t just read. Pick your current phase and run one week of the Methodology as an experiment. The goal is not perfection — the goal is momentum.