Early-Stage OS [Notion]

Early-Stage OS is a simple yet powerful Notion template to keep things organized and get things done at an early-stage of a startup. It has been carefully crafted, built, and used for over a year by the founders of Spur (https://meetspur.app). It takes care of most of the business aspects, helping you navigate through this messy journey of entrepreneurship.

Two features make this template special ->

1. Tightly Connected Databases
2. Daily Meetings ✨

DATABASES

💼 Teams

Use existing teams or create new teams. Each team houses linked databases for Projects, Tasks & Resources.

🗃️ Projects / Sprints

This database stores all the projects and sprints your teams are working on. Every project has a start date and a deadline. It comprises a list of tasks, and the completion of these tasks determines the project's progress.

⚒️ Tasks

All the tasks that your teams are up to. Quickly create new tasks, mark them as complete or shift their timeline when the need arises.

📔 Resources

You create a resource on the fly to store important links, information, or files you want to refer to from time to time. A resource can be specific to a team, like documentation for the Engineering team or a list of competitors for the Product team.

👥 Potential Customers

This database contains all your potential customers. It can be a customer you want to talk to, customers you have to follow up with, customers who have signed up for early access, or paying customers.

🤙 Customers Contacted

Keep track of all the potential customers you've contacted so far. Use it as a time machine to look at customers you got a few days ago who didn't reply so you can follow up with them.

💸 Finance Tracker

Be on top of your money game. Create and maintain multiple accounts, whether it be personal or business accounts.

🏇 Competitions & Programs

At this stage, you participate in a lot of competitions & programs. This is where you maintain all of your applications and their deadlines so you don't miss any submissions. You can also share your applications and get feedback.

🧠 Startup Ideas

When you're building a product, you talk to a lot of people, you understand their pains, and along the way, you keep getting new ideas. Ideas that might not be related to your current startup, but they're fresh, and they excite you. So this place is where you come to write all them before you forget them.

💭 Discussions

A discussion can be like an interview with a customer, a conversation with your co-founder, a meeting with an investor, or anything you want to log that requires its page.

🗓️ DAILY MEETINGS

This is where you'll be spending most of your day! When we start our day at Spur, we create a Daily Meeting, where we begin and end our day. This page is linked to most of the databases we have looked at so far, and any entry you create here will live here forever. It allows you to add entries to all the above databases in a way that makes sense and feels natural.

DATABASE TEMPLATES

There are also templates for all the databases, So when creating a new entry in a database, select the template, and it will populate the entry with everything you need to get started.

FAQs

Who is Early-Stage OS for?

- Entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and builders who are in the early-stage solving a problem and building a business.

- Someone who has an idea and needs a workspace to organize their thoughts and various aspects of building a product.

Does it include instructions?

Yes! I've made a walkthrough of the entire template that you can find here -> https://youtu.be/NKc9OD2av80

What if I have a question?

You can DM on Twitter (@_royaltomar) anytime. Please don't hesitate.

Alternatively, if you need need a one-on-one session, go ahead and buy the Early-Stage OS with a Coaching Session Version 🙌

I hope you enjoy using the Early-Stage OS and that it helps you organize things better at your startup and make sense of this complex journey that we call entrepreneurship.

Best regards,
Royal