What the suns and clouds tell you
The Suns and Clouds chart tells you two main things about how backable your plan is: whether there are any extraordinary risks (or opportunities); and whether the overall balance of risk and opportunity is favourable.
Extraordinary risk
Take a look at the top right-hand corner of Figure 8.1. There’s a heavy thundercloud there, with two exclamation marks. That’s a risk that is both very likely and very big. It’s a showstopper risk. If your backer finds one of them in your plan, that’s it. It’s unbackable.
The closer a cloud gets to that thundercloud, the worse news it is. Risks that hover around the diagonal (from the top left to the bottom right corners) can be handled, as long as they are balanced by opportunities. ...
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