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Startup Fast Track: Confident Launch in 90 Days or Less (Udemy.com)

Validate your startup idea, build a list of waiting customers, and get paid, even if you have nothing to sell yet!

Created by: Donatas Jonikas (PhD)

Last updated November 2025

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What you will learn

  • Define your startup business model in 20 min or less
  • 6 main risk types and 4 simple strategies to handle them
  • How to estimate your target market size using top-down and bottom-up methods
  • 10 slides for your 3-min pitch deck to grab and hold attention of investors
  • 2 in 1 system: learn and build your startup by doing practical tasks
  • How to use value proposition design framework in practice
  • How to analyze your competitors and use Blue Ocean strategy to make competition almost irrelevant
  • How to calculate fixed and variable costs, cash-burn rate, break-even point and need for investment
  • 3 levels of value proposition and the formula of irresistible offer
  • Profit hacking formula and 18 traffic sources for the long run success
  • 5 essential steps how to make your interviews with potential customers really valuable

How it compares

Against the other 418 rated Udemy courses in Digital Marketing on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 90% of them
  • Reviews757#138 of 419 by number of reviews
  • Length14.9 hourslonger than 84% of them
  • Last updatedNovember 2025more recently than 70% of them

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Course Description

This comprehensive course shows the way how to build a business model around your innovative idea (product or service) and get initial traction without having to put high stakes at risk. It’s not just another video course, it’s a proven step-by-step system based on the research of 1,447 startups. It shows the way how to create, validate, and implement your whole business model.

If you are 100% focused on developing your startup and have no time for other stuff, this course is definitely for you! I’ve designed it as a 2 in 1 system: you learn by working on your startup! Short video lessons explain the very essence and give you practical tasks that you’ll have to do by working on your own startup.


Top 10 things you‘ll LEARN in this course:

  1. Shift from the guess & try method to a proven system used by successful founders.

  2. Build your startup in a faster and safer way with less investment.

  3. Save your time, money, and nerves by doing the right market research.

  4. Create value and irresistible offer for your customers.

  5. Use landing pages and marketing funnels as your MVP.

  6. Know when it's time to make a pivot or even abandon your idea.

  7. Get highly valuable customer testimonials even before the launch.

  8. Prepare your go-to-market strategy and launch your product on a budget.

  9. Prepare your business for scaling and take it to the next level.

  10. Increase the value of your startup without even investing in production.


Top 10 things you‘ll CREATE by doing practical tasks:

  1. Your MVP ready for testing, even if you don't have a product yet.

  2. Your first lead funnel to drive initial traction and even paying customers.

  3. Feedback on how to improve your product and make it amazing.

  4. The concept of product or service that customers love and are ready to pay for!

  5. Initial leads that can be converted into customers.

  6. An automated system to onboard new leads and convert them.

  7. Marketing plan that is ready to go once you have the final product.

  8. Clear and validated (market-proven) business model.

  9. Less stress by following actionable steps and using professional templates, swipe files, and tools.

  10. Status of a successful startup founder who got the product-market fit in a fast and smart way.


By taking this course

  • You will be able to estimate the potential of your startup and craft a sustainable business model around it.

  • You will find out how to identify and manage risks, save time, money, and your energy creating profitable products and services, as well as increasing the likelihood that customers will enjoy them.

  • You will understand what insights and assumptions you need to check and what are the most appropriate ways to do that.

  • You will also discover the formula of an irresistible offer and will know how to make competition on price almost irrelevant to you.


This course will reveal how to improve your sales economy, even if you haven’t started selling yet. You will be able to effectively launch your product or service into the market, and get ready for scaling and the next investment round.

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Instructor Details

Donatas Jonikas (PhD)

I’m ranked as one of the World’s Top 30 Startup Coaches for 2024 among Eric Ries, Steve Blank, Peter Thiel, Pat Flynn, Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuk. I’ve worked with multiple science and technology parks as a tech business development expert. Government agencies trusted me to create four startup pre-acceleration programs.

I’m regularly invited as a speaker, mentor, or judge to events like The Brain Race, Product-Led Summit, LOGIN, Grand Founders Day, and multiple other startup competitions and hackathons. I work hands-on with startups, investors, and startup ecosystems as a marketing advisor.

I hold a Ph.D. in Economics and a Master’s in Marketing Management with over 16 years of experience in the field. I helped implement winning marketing strategies for more than 50 businesses in different industries during my consulting practice.

But there was a time when I had more doubts than answers. Long ago, I’ve tried to launch a medical tourism platform and failed miserably. I’ve burned all my savings, wasted tons of time with developers, and built nothing valuable. After two years of trying, I’ve made a hard decision to close the project. OUCH! That was a tipping point when I turned 100% into startup marketing. I became obsessed with an idea to find out how to build a successful startup.

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Reviews

4.7

757 ratings on Udemy

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By Yuval Tutnauer on 9/16/2024

Taking the Udemy course on startups has been incredibly valuable for me. It's given me a solid foundation in key areas crucial for launching and growing startup: 1. Lean Startup Methodology: I've learned how to validate ideas quickly and efficiently. 2. Business Model Canvas: This tool has helped me visualize and refine TasteSync's business model. 3. Pitching Skills: The course improved my ability to present TasteSync compellingly to potential investors and partners. 4. Financial Basics: I now have a better grasp on startup finances, which is crucial for budgeting and fundraising. 5. Marketing Strategies: I've gained insights into cost-effective marketing techniques for early-stage startups. 6. Team Building: The course provided guidance on how to build and manage an effective startup team. 7. Legal Considerations: I'm now more aware of the legal aspects of starting a business. 8. Networking Tactics: I've learned strategies for building valuable connections in the startup ecosystem. This knowledge has been instrumental in shaping my approach to developing TasteSync and has given me more confidence as a founder. It's helping me avoid common pitfalls and make more informed decisions as we move forward.

By Kamran Ali on 4/28/2024

I've done many courses throughout the years, with continuous CPD for many of my licenses. This course by far is in my top 5 of all time. I learnt so much from just the first quarter. I was shocked at how much I knowledge I gained and how well the instructor walks you through each segment. A 'must' if your serious about business, and want to take your abilities on par with the big players.

By Amina A. on 4/28/2022

The course is mostly hypothetical, doesn't go indepth, it does provide practical examples from time to time, said examples are really handy, which I am grateful for, now I know what to look for|focus on, no one in their right mind can expect to get everything from a single source.

By Kohei Katsurasako on 8/13/2021

Like the reviews was mentions, it was simple and easy to understand. I really like this course, help me to have ideas how to start the business. And in this course, also mention the usefully that we can use for startup. For me everything is new, but you can handled it

By Nori Vemadin on 3/11/2021

So far so good. Valuable content, professional video quality. Got many ideas what should I do next with my startup. It's an interesting concept t use landing page as a testing tool to validate my ideas. I've already started building 3 different landing pages to test my offer and product idea.

By Khush on 1/26/2021

What is good in the course? Mostly the course is about "What". What should be the steps to create a startup. What is bad in the course? There is very little "How". Even if the how is there it is all theory with no practical demonstration. I was expecting all the steps demonstrated with examples. The ideal will be the teacher should have created a dummy project and then goes through all the steps for the startup, himself showing how he does everything.

By Davide Benvenuti on 12/7/2020

The best resource on Startup methodologies I've found so far! I rode Ries, Maurya books, but in this course you can find the essence of everything together with marketing/business strategies (as Blue Ocean) extremely helpful. Moreover the explanation, visualization and contentment makes it extremely understandable and practical. Top Rated!

By Liam K on 10/17/2020

Very professional course. Didn't expect I could get something like this on Udemy. Most courses are just about scratching the surface (2-3 hours of content) or have too much idle talk with lack of application in practice. Startup Fast Track is not a bullshit!

By Adam T. on 10/16/2020

This course is something that I've been looking for. Clear and actionable lectures, useful templates, and... practical tasks that make me feel a bit uncomfortable :) You need to do the THING, not just watch the course if you want to get somewhere with your startup idea. Video quality might be better in some lectures, but at least for me, "content is the king."

By Symon He on 10/14/2020

Very thought out and thorough. Donatas has essentially created a startup "bible"—if you arrive at a clear and obvious startup opportunity with a clear path to proof of concept, early traction, and even getting investor funding and you still can't get anything going, then maybe this startup thing isn't right for you. It's like he has taken the best practices from the last 20 years in the startup world and distilled it into this polished blueprint. If you have any desire to start your own venture and want to graduate from just being a "wantrepreneur", I highly recommend this course. What you'll learn in this course is worth 1000x the cost of admission!

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