Don’t build yet. Put the offer in front of 20 real people this week.
- Experiment
- Landing page + 20 interviews
- Metric that matters
- Sign-ups per 100 visitors
Field guides for founders
Build with
what you have.
Validate, sell, and build — without an MBA, investors, or wasted months. Ramen Founders turns lean know-how into practical books and free tools for founders with more resolve than resources.
Why we exist
We publish books for founders who don’t have time for theory.
Most business books are written for the boardroom. Ours are written for the kitchen table — for the builder who can’t wait for permission, funding, or a two-year degree. Every title is a field guide: tested tactics you can run this week, from people who’ve actually done it. No filler, no gatekeepers, no theory you’ll never use.
Miguel Ángel Gómez Bartolomé Founding editor
Founder diagnostic
Where are you now?
Pick your stage. We’ll point you to the one experiment, tool, and read that move you forward this week.
Turn interest into commitment. Ask for a small yes — a deposit, a pre-order, an email.
- Experiment
- Smoke test or pre-sale
- Metric that matters
- Conversion to a real commitment
Sell manually before you automate. Deliver by hand and learn what they’ll pay for.
- Experiment
- Concierge MVP
- Metric that matters
- Paying customers & repeat rate
Find one channel that works and double down before you add a second.
- Experiment
- Pricing test
- Metric that matters
- CAC vs LTV
Put AI on the boring 80%. Start with research, copy, and analysis.
- Experiment
- AI operations sprint
- Metric that matters
- Hours saved per week
The catalogue
Two field guides. Zero filler.
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Lean Startup: 101 Success Stories
Real-world validation of entrepreneurial ideas.
101 real companies — from Airbnb to Glovo — turned a hunch into a business with almost no resources. Each story shows the single experiment that proved the idea, in two or three pages.
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How to Start a Business Without an MBA
The AI-native founder's guide to validating, selling, and building without debt.
The playbook for building a company with the resources already in your hands — proof over permission, revenue over funding, AI as your unfair advantage.
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The method
Every field guide is built around four rules.
Useful by Monday
If you can’t apply it this week, it doesn’t make the cut.
Proof over theory
We publish from experiments, examples, and numbers — not lecture halls.
Short on purpose
No padded chapters, no business-school fog. Just the field guide.
Tools included
Templates, prompts, and calculators whenever the book calls for them.
Start where you are.
Templates, prompts, and a unit-economics calculator to run your next validation sprint — free, no email required.
Get the free kit