Core Strategy: A Framework for Planning and Predicting High Growth Ventures Common to all high-growth new ventures is impeccable timing for their product/business model - when either a large volume of customers or a handful of customers, who order large volumes, will soon be in "must have" mode and competitors lack the "motivation/means to co-opt." Conventional approaches to discover and design this "holy grail" have only been providing winners 20% of the time. This book describes a Silicon Valley tested framework that increases the acceleration and predictability of new venture strategy making by 2x - 4x over conventional approaches. The Core Strategy Framework provides a surprisingly easy-to-use pattern recognition logic for planning technology, product, production, business model, management team and finance requirements. The Core Strategy Framework offers an unconventional but critically decisive and proven schema for identifying your marketplace's circumstances of customers, competitors, complementors and the technological/innovation trajectory of lead platforms and the migration of end-users' value expectations. The Core Strategy framework provides a common navigational language that allows technologists, business experts and venture investors to transform the current hip-shoot fuzzy Front End Innovation into a predictable next-generation process.