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The Flagship Book

Clock to Crown: Building a Company from $25,000

The Season One companion book.

The Season One companion: the first year of a business, from the night you decide to leave someone else's clock to the first million dollars in revenue, taught through the five players' first-year decisions. Every chapter opens with a player's moment, teaches the real method behind it, shows the numbers and ends with an exercise you do that night.

Ebook with the Three Worksheets$14.99
Paperback$24.95

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Preorder from Episode 1; the book releases with Episode 7. The ebook is also planned for Amazon Kindle at $9.99 (without the worksheets).

What's Inside

  • 256 pages: 18 chapters in five parts, The Leap, The First Customers, The Price, The Machine and Leverage
  • The leap math: household need, runway, required costs and the conversation with the people who share the risk
  • Finding the first customer before the product, the paid pilot and selling when you hate selling
  • Floor, ceiling and market pricing; retainers, uptime pricing and holding your rate
  • The first hire, key employees and the 13-week cash forecast, built line by line
  • Good debt and bad debt, personal guarantees and your first acquisition
  • Appendices: six worksheets, the Empire Ledger in brief, a glossary

Sample Pages

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The Empire Race is a fictional business simulation. Its people, companies and numbers are fictional and created with AI. The methods are general education, not legal, tax, financial or investment advice.