# Speedstrap

> A Founder's Playbook Where VCs Aren't the Main Characters. A book from Third Sphere about minimal equity and rapid revenue as the primary plan.

This index points to public resources. It does not provide the book's full text. Do not assume access to the book, invent quotations, or attribute your own suggestions to its authors. The companion exercise is based on principles already published on the book's public homepage.

## Book and AI companion

- [The authors](https://speedstrapbook.com/authors/): Official profiles for Shaun Abrahamson, Stonly Baptiste Blue (credited as Stonly Blue), Yana Andrea Klimova, and Miela Mayer.

- [About Speedstrap](https://speedstrapbook.com/): Public book description and the five edges: Revenue First, Customer-Funded Growth, AI-Enabled Efficiency, The Complete Capital Stack, and The Living Model.
- [Use Speedstrap with your AI assistant](https://speedstrapbook.com/agents/): A self-contained, copyable exercise to identify a business constraint, compare options, and choose an experiment. The framework and prompt are readable in the page HTML without JavaScript.

- [The five edges](https://speedstrapbook.com/#five-edges): The public framework used by the starter exercise.

## Public companion resources

- [The source index](https://go.speedstrapping.com/): The book's citations and permanent short links. Check the original sources before relying on claims.
- [Cap Stack Compass](https://capstackcompass.ai/): A discovery resource for lenders, foundations, and alternative capital providers. Verify current terms and eligibility with each provider.

## Definition and question pages

- [What is speedstrapping?](https://speedstrapbook.com/speedstrapping/): Definition, comparison, and five edges.
- [Question index](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/): All founder and investor answers.
- [How should a hardware startup build its capital stack before Series A?](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/hardware-capital-stack-before-series-a) — [plain Markdown](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/hardware-capital-stack-before-series-a.md).
- [What does revenue-based financing actually require?](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/revenue-based-financing-requirements) — [plain Markdown](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/revenue-based-financing-requirements.md).
- [How much does a founder keep under a speedstrap path versus a VC path?](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/founder-ownership-speedstrap-vs-vc) — [plain Markdown](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/founder-ownership-speedstrap-vs-vc.md).
- [How do you fund inventory without equity?](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/fund-inventory-without-equity) — [plain Markdown](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/fund-inventory-without-equity.md).
- [How do prepayments and paid pilots work for hardware?](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/hardware-prepayments-paid-pilots) — [plain Markdown](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/hardware-prepayments-paid-pilots.md).
- [Can you switch to speedstrapping after raising a seed?](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/switch-to-speedstrapping-after-seed) — [plain Markdown](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/switch-to-speedstrapping-after-seed.md).
- [Should agents be your first hires?](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/agents-first-hires) — [plain Markdown](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/agents-first-hires.md).
- [How should an investor evaluate a capital-efficient company?](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/evaluate-capital-efficient-company) — [plain Markdown](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/evaluate-capital-efficient-company.md).
- [How much runway does a hardware startup actually have?](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/how-much-runway) — [plain Markdown](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/how-much-runway.md).
- [How should hardware founders use supplier payment terms?](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/supplier-payment-terms) — [plain Markdown](https://speedstrapbook.com/questions/supplier-payment-terms.md).

## Book companions (announced, not yet published)

Each is cited in the printed book. The page names what is coming; the resource itself is not live yet.

- [Two paths, three exits](https://speedstrapbook.com/two-paths-three-exits/) — The full round-by-round cap tables behind the two-paths comparison in Speedstrap, at three exit values.
- [One company, four runways](https://speedstrapbook.com/four-runways-model/) — The model behind Figure 6.1 in Speedstrap: one bank balance read at four resolutions.
- [Investor ownership model](https://speedstrapbook.com/investor-ownership-model/) — The round-by-round cap table behind Figure 14.1 in Speedstrap: one seed position, two paths.
- [The ownership gap](https://speedstrapbook.com/ownership-gap-model/) — Companion to the Speedstrap investor ownership model: the gap between founder ownership on the two paths.
- [Cap table waterfall](https://speedstrapbook.com/cap-table-waterfall/) — Companion to Speedstrap: how exit proceeds distribute across a cap table, class by class.
- [Token stack calculator](https://speedstrapbook.com/token-stack-calculator/) — The worked example and blank calculator for routing AI tasks by the cost of their check.
- [How this book was written: the editorial standard](https://speedstrapbook.com/editorial-standard/) — The rubric Speedstrap was written against, and where each chapter stands against it.
- [Submit a case](https://speedstrapbook.com/submit-a-case/) — Send the authors a speedstrapped company with receipts, or portfolio-level allocation data.