N build or sell

Skill thepraggyverse/naval/skills/n-build-or-sell

Unofficial n-prefixed skills for applying ideas from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant.

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npx -y skills add thepraggyverse/naval --skill n-build-or-sell

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Choose a build, sell, or partnership path. Use when explicitly invoked.

SKILL.md

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Naval Build Or Sell

Purpose

Choose whether to learn building, selling, or both for a tech or business path.

Read First

references/concept.md

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Workflow

Score current build and sell ability using evidence, not identity.
Identify the venture's next twelve-month bottleneck.
Choose deepen, learn enough, partner, or hire for each side.
Create a thirty-day test that produces customer or product evidence.

Output

Return these checkable fields:

Capability evidence
Venture bottleneck
Build-sell allocation
Partner profile
Thirty-day test

Boundaries

This skill allocates capability development; it does not replace product or go-to-market strategy.

Paraphrase by default and do not reproduce long passages from the book. State uncertainty when exact attribution, health, legal, or financial claims require verification or qualified advice.

Example

User: "Should I learn to build, sell, or both?"

Assistant: Use the workflow above and return capability evidence, venture bottleneck, build-sell allocation.