Finding your pivot paths, fast: What the ACME1 team said about the workshop, in hindsight.

April 23, 2025
Posted by Stefan Zanetti

A week ago I posted how we identified 3 immediately relevant pivot paths within one 5 hours workshop for a real company, called “ACME 1” (see link to post in comments).

A few days after the workshop, I checked in with the team:

At that point, they already had aligned with their board and they have re-prioritized their roadmap, based on the workshop results (which, by the way, also included another 7 patterns to experiment with and to be explored).

What made the workshop a success for them?

Three reasons were named as crucial, by the team:

1. We worked with 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.
2. With the underlying pivotal framework, they got 𝗮 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿 & 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀.
3. The discussion was 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻.

This aligns with my own experience: most founders in pivot situations struggle with the huge number of ideas, opinions and interests of different parties.

They can not see the forest for the trees anymore.

For ACME1, a very focused, structured, external support in form of one workshop was enough to get things sorted out for the time being.

On that note: I have three open 3 spots for tech founders in March.

If you feel uncertain about your startup’s future, DM me “pivot” & I’ll take it from there.

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Finding your pivot paths, fast: What the ACME1 team said about the workshop, in hindsight.

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