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“If I had asked
people what they
wanted, they
would have said a
faster horse”
Henry Ford
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“People don’t
want a quarter
inch drill, they
want a quarter
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Theodore Levitt 1962
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A startup is a temporary
organisation designed to search
for a repeatable and scalable
business model
Steve Blank
A startup is a human institution
designed to deliver a new product
or service under conditions of
extreme uncertainty.
Eric Ries
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Customer Discovery Customer Validation Customer Creation
“People don’t
know what they
want until you
show it to them.
That’s why I
never rely on
market
research.”
Steve Jobs
maximum
amount of
learning
least
amount of
effort
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
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Probably much more minimum than you think !
“starting a company is like throwing
yourself off a cliff and assembling an
airplane on the way down.“
Reid Hoffmann founder LinkedIn
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Editor's Notes

  1. Odeo = platform for podcasting >> Twitter The Point = business model based online collective action and fundraising, failed to get traction. pivoted and launched Groupon, which took his original idea for collection action and applied it to local deals. Two years later, the business blew past $100 million in sales. Game Neverending = Social game >> Flickr Burbn, HTML5 app that mimicked Foursquare’s concept of “checking in”, learned from competition, differentiated themselves, focus on square fotos, 2010 after 1 week of launch, no. 1 in App Store, $ 1 Bio in 2 years!
  2. Structure thoughts and develop ideas into business ideas, “nail” the: Top 3 problems that are worth solving Customer segments that would be willing to pay Top 3 benefits customer would derive
  3. Put yourself into the shoes of the customer: Job to be done? Pain points & gains? Identify benefits that customers would derive: Gain creators & pain relievers? Products/value prop?
  4. Test the riskiest assumption by defining: The most efficient method Early adopters to target Deliverables of the test Minimum success criterion
  5. Document progress of lean startup project Document customer & problem hypothesis List core assumptions & identify riskiest assumption to validate/ invalidate Pivot/Persevere