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Testing is usually associated with expensive pilot projects at the
end of the product
development process when it’s usually too late to make major
modifications or change course.
In the following pages we outline a number of testing
techniques that you can already apply
during the search and design phase of your business ideas.
These techniques enable you to
generate market facts rapidly and cheaply while you are still
seeking to understand your
customers and design your value proposition and business
model.
As outlined earlier, testing goes beyond interviewing or market
observations, and gets
potential customers to perform certain actions that prove their
interest.
This type of testing can be applied as early as the instance you
have an idea. The facts you
gather in the process should continuously inform your search
for great value propositions
and business models.
We identified three categories of testing techniques:
• Testing interest & relevance
• Testing willingness & ability to pay
• Testing preferences & priorities
Now get out there and start testing!
Testing Your
Business Model
A Reference Guide
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What you measure:
Do potential customers show interest in your ideas? Are your
ideas relevant to
them? Are they interested enough to perform an action?
You can start testing the interest and relevance of your ideas
with customers before even
having a concrete value proposition in mind. By testing jobs,
pains, and gains you can figure
out if customers even care about the issues you intend to
address.
The following techniques allow you to get started on testing
your customers’ interest:
• Ad Tracking / “Fake” Ads
• Landing Pages
Ad tracking / “Fake” Ads /
Ad tracking is an established technique that is used by
advertisers to measure the effective-
ness of ad spending. The same technique can be used in a
powerful way to track the interest
or lack of interest of potential customers for a new value
proposition that doesn’t even exist
yet. If few or no potential customers respond to your ad
campaign they either don’t have the
job, pain, or gain you are planning to address or they don’t see
fit in your advertised value
proposition.
Tear-off ads or flyers are a low-cost and low-tech way to learn
from a local
advertising campaign.
Testing Interest
& Relevance
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Google ads are a very scalable way to test potential customers’
reactions to
certain search terms. With a small budget you can run a
campaign on Google
AdWords and you only pay if people click on your ads and visit
your landing page.
Billboard, magazine, or online banner ads
are a very rich, but usually more expensive
way to test ideas, if the ad features a call to
action that allows you to measure potential
customers’ interest.
Link tracking in general is a great way to
track people’s interest. For example, when
you send people a URL to your offer in an
email, make sure you track if they click on it
or not. This can easily be done with services
like goo.gl. If people don’t click on the link you
sent them they are not interested or have
more pressing issues.
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Landing Pages
Setting up so-called landing pages on the Internet is a very
quick and low-cost approach to
testing people’s interest in an idea. While this technique
originates from online services it can
be applied to physical products just as easily. The goal of a
landing page is to attract traffic
and then test several calls to action with potential customers
such as the ones outlined below.
Asking people to sign-up with their email to
be notified about the launch of a product is
a simple way to ask potential customers for
a small “investment” (e.g. taking the time to
sign up and handing over their email address)
that proves their interest.
Getting people to fill out a survey is another
action that can provide valuable information
about people’s interest. However, as outlined
previously for interviews, surveys are a great
source for information, but not a reliable
source of facts. The main fact resulting from
people filling out a survey is that they are
willing to invest their time.
Measuring click activity on your landing page
is another source of interesting learning. If
you have several elements on your landing
page visitors will click on those. So-called
heat maps will show you where visitors click
most and you’ll often be in for a surprise.
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What you measure:
Are potential customers interested enough in the features of
your value
proposition to buy? Will they put their money where there
mouth is?
Validating your customers’ interest and gathering facts that
prove you are addressing issues
that are relevant to them is not sufficient. You also want to
prove that they are willing to pay
you for addressing those issues.
The following techniques allow you to get started on testing
your customers’ willingness
to pay:
• “Fake” Sales
• Pre-Sales
• Minimum Viable Products
“Fake” Sales
There is a big difference between people telling you they are
interested in your value proposition
and them pulling out their wallet, credit card, or unlocking a
budget in a business to business
environment. It’s the difference between information and facts.
Simulating a “fake” sales for an
unfinished or even non-existing value proposition is a great way
to get to those facts. Of course
you need to manage what happens once the “customer” has
completed the “fake” purchase,
since the value proposition doesn’t yet exist. Being transparent,
explaining them that it was a
test and then offering them a future discount for the value
proposition you are testing or giving
them another goodie is usually a powerful way to turn them into
great advocates for your
cause. There are several techniques to simulate a purchase.
The simplest technique to simulate a purchase is to put a buy
now button on your website
or landing page. You can go as far as collecting credit card
information (but then destroying
them immediately) or simply measure the number of clicks on
the button. You can easily do
this for digital as well as physical products.
Testing willingness
& ability to pay
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An established technique in fast moving consumer goods
(FMCGs) is the “fake” sales of a
product in only one retail location for a very limited amount of
time. Don’t confound this with
a pilot sales, which is usually more extensive and more
expensive and often covers an entire
market. Traditional pilot sales usually come much later in the
testing process.
Pre-Sales
Pre-selling before a value proposition or prod-
uct fully exists has become an increasingly
popular method to test market interest. Sev-
eral internet platforms have made pre-sell-
ing a very easy process. While pre-sales is
relatively standard process in large industrial
investment goods it is now also very common
in mass market consumer goods.
Kickstarter is one of the most popular
platforms for pre-selling. You can advertise
a project on the platform and people can
pledge money to make it happen if they like it.
Projects only receive the money if they reach
their funding goals.
Collecting credit card information on your
own platform, but charging them later is
more complicated than using an off-the-
shelf platform, but perfectly possible. The
advantage is that you retain the full control
over the legal and commercial aspects.
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letter of intent
Pledges, letters of intent, and signatures under non-legally
binding documents are a
powerful technique to test potential customers’ willingness to
buy even if they are not
a binding pre-sales.
Minimum Viable Products (aka prototyping)
The so-called Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a strategy
used for fast and quantitative
market testing of a value proposition, product, service, or
feature. It was initially used for web
applications and popularized by Eric Ries. An MVP is not
always a smaller or cheaper version
of your final product. Often a cheaper proxy allows you to test
the assumptions underlying
your value proposition more quickly and more cost effectively.
Ask yourself what you really
want to learn and what the cheapest hack possible is to test that
assumption.
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What you measure:
Which features of your value proposition do potential customers
prefer?
What do they really value? What do they prioritize?
When you are designing a value proposition you will often be
confronted with the question of
which issues are more relevant to customers or which features
they value more. Generating
facts on your customers’ preferences and priorities is a much
better approach to design than
prioritizing solely based on your assumptions. The techniques
outlined in this section also
allow you to learn more about your customers’ take on
alternative prices.
The following techniques allow you to get started on testing
your customers’ preferences:
• Split Testing
• Innovation Games®
Split Testing
Split testing, also known as so-called A/B testing is a powerful
technique to test the
performance of two or more options. You compare two or more
identical versions of a value
proposition, minimum viable product or landing page with one
variation per version that you
want to test. Even marginal changes can sometimes have a
major impact on behavior. In
e-commerce, for example, the location of a purchasing button,
the color of a website, etc.
can all have major impacts on purchasing behavior. The goal of
split testing is to identify
changes that increase or maximize an outcome of interest.
Landing pages are the most common technique used to perform
split tests for new value
propositions. For this book, for example, we tested several book
titles by performing split tests.
Testing Preferences
& Priorities
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Split tests can also be applied to physical products or services
by using split groups. For
example, in fast moving consumer goods, retailers often test the
best location of goods in
their shelves and aisles. Nothing prevents you from testing
services with slightly different
features with customer and measuring the behavior.
Innovation Games®
Innovation Games® are a powerful technique popularized by
Luke Hohmann that help you
unearth, describe, and prioritize value propositions and features
by using collaborative play
with your customers. These games can be played by customers
online or in person.
Below you find three of several Innovation
Games® that help you in your undertaking to
design stuff people want.
Prune the Product Tree uses the metaphor
of a gardener pruning a tree to map out how
customers would like to see the features of a
value proposition grow over time. In this game
customers place index cards with features
on the drawing of a tree to shape its growth.
Cards on the outer edges of the tree are con-
sidered longer term features and represent
the future. Cards placed closest represent
features to add in the near term.
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The Buy a Feature game gets customers to
prioritize features, rather than just debat-
ing which features customers find most
important. In this game you give customers
a list of potential features and provide each
with a price. Just like for a real product, the
price can be based on development costs,
customer value, or something else. Custom-
ers buy features that they want in the next
release of your product using play money
you give them.
In the Product Box game customers are asked to imagine that
they’re selling your product at a
trade show, retail outlet, or public market. They are given a few
cardboard boxes and asked to
literally design a product box that they would buy. The box
should have the key marketing slogans
that they find interesting. Ask your customer to use their box to
sell you your product. You will
learn what they appreciate most about your product and what
they find most important.
Module 3 Problem SetsPrinciples of EconomicsName:Date:
Question #1Question #1: Draw a perfectly inelastic supply
curve.Answer:
Question #2Question #2: If elasticity of demand is 0.5 and price
is lowered from $20 to $19, by what percentage will quantity
demanded rise?Answer:
Question #3Question #3: (a) Illustrate a tax increase. (b) State
what happens to equilibrium price and quantity.Answers:
Question #4Question #4: If the price of eye surgery falls by 50-
percent and the quantity of contact lenses demanded falls by 25-
percent, find the cross-price elasticity of demand for theses two
goods.Answer:
Question #5Question #5: A perfect competitor would never
charge more than market price because ________________; the
perfect competitor would never charge less than market price
because ________________________. Answers:
Question #6Question #6: How much is the firm's most efficient
output?Answer:
Question #7Question #7: At an output of 9, MC = 20 and AVC =
$25. At an output of 10, MC = $32 and AVC = $26. What is the
lowest price the firm will accept in the short-run?Answer:
Question #8
Question #9
Question #10
Question #11Question #11: There are basically only two
justifications for monopolies:Answers:12
Question #12Question #12: The main economic criticism of
monopolies and big business in general is that they are
________________________________.Answer:
Question #13Question #13: Price discrimination occurs when a
seller charges _________________________ for the same good
or service.Answer:
Question #14Question #14: The monopolistic competitor's
demand curve slopes
________________________________________.Answer:
Question #15Question #15: U.S. Steel and a few cigarette
companies were all engage in _________________________ to
attain their economic ends.Answer:
Question #16Question #16: The oligopolist
________________________ at the minimum point of his or her
ATC curve.Answer:
Question #17Question #17: The most important cartel in the
world today is
__________________________________________.Answer:
Module 4 Problem SetsPrinciples of EconomicsName:Date:
Question #1Net Exports = _________________ -
_________________________.Answers:
Question #2The three members of NAFTA are
_______________, __________________,
and__________________________.Answers:
Question #3Our exports of goods and services are about
____________ percent of our GDP in 2016.Answer:
Question #4The only trading bloc that has eliminated all its
international tariffs is ___________________________.Answer:
Question #5The main concern of the labor union members who
were protesting against the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank
was ___________________.Answer:
Question #6______________________________ measures total
production in one year.Answer:
Question #7Per capita real GDP is found by dividing
_______________________ by
______________________.Answers:
Question #8Given the following information, calculate NDP:
GDP = $5 trillion and Depreciation = $500 billion.Answer:
Question #9If depreciation is $400 billion and NDP is $6
trillion, how much is GDP?Answer:
Question #10Find per capita GDP when population is 100
million and GDP is $2 trillion.Answer:
Question #11Find per capita GDP when GDP is $1.5 trillion and
population is 300 million.Answer:
Question #12If real GDP goes up by 3.7-percent and the GDP
deflator goes up by 1.6-percent, find the percentage change in
GDP.Answer:
Question #13If consumption spending is $3 trillion, investment
is $800 billion, government spending is $1 trillion, imports are
$1.2 trillion, and exports are $900 billion, how much is
GDP?Answer:
Question #14Over time, per capita real GDP comparisons
become _____________valid.Answer:
Question #15GDP includes only payments for
____________________________________.Answer:

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  • 1. Copyright Strategyzer AG The makers of Business Model Generation and Strategyzer strategyzer.com Testing is usually associated with expensive pilot projects at the end of the product development process when it’s usually too late to make major modifications or change course. In the following pages we outline a number of testing techniques that you can already apply during the search and design phase of your business ideas. These techniques enable you to generate market facts rapidly and cheaply while you are still seeking to understand your customers and design your value proposition and business model. As outlined earlier, testing goes beyond interviewing or market observations, and gets potential customers to perform certain actions that prove their interest. This type of testing can be applied as early as the instance you have an idea. The facts you gather in the process should continuously inform your search
  • 2. for great value propositions and business models. We identified three categories of testing techniques: • Testing interest & relevance • Testing willingness & ability to pay • Testing preferences & priorities Now get out there and start testing! Testing Your Business Model A Reference Guide Copyright Strategyzer AG The makers of Business Model Generation and Strategyzer strategyzer.com What you measure: Do potential customers show interest in your ideas? Are your ideas relevant to them? Are they interested enough to perform an action? You can start testing the interest and relevance of your ideas with customers before even having a concrete value proposition in mind. By testing jobs, pains, and gains you can figure
  • 3. out if customers even care about the issues you intend to address. The following techniques allow you to get started on testing your customers’ interest: • Ad Tracking / “Fake” Ads • Landing Pages Ad tracking / “Fake” Ads / Ad tracking is an established technique that is used by advertisers to measure the effective- ness of ad spending. The same technique can be used in a powerful way to track the interest or lack of interest of potential customers for a new value proposition that doesn’t even exist yet. If few or no potential customers respond to your ad campaign they either don’t have the job, pain, or gain you are planning to address or they don’t see fit in your advertised value proposition. Tear-off ads or flyers are a low-cost and low-tech way to learn from a local advertising campaign. Testing Interest
  • 4. & Relevance Copyright Strategyzer AG The makers of Business Model Generation and Strategyzer strategyzer.com Google ads are a very scalable way to test potential customers’ reactions to certain search terms. With a small budget you can run a campaign on Google AdWords and you only pay if people click on your ads and visit your landing page. Billboard, magazine, or online banner ads are a very rich, but usually more expensive way to test ideas, if the ad features a call to action that allows you to measure potential customers’ interest. Link tracking in general is a great way to track people’s interest. For example, when you send people a URL to your offer in an email, make sure you track if they click on it or not. This can easily be done with services
  • 5. like goo.gl. If people don’t click on the link you sent them they are not interested or have more pressing issues. Copyright Strategyzer AG The makers of Business Model Generation and Strategyzer strategyzer.com Landing Pages Setting up so-called landing pages on the Internet is a very quick and low-cost approach to testing people’s interest in an idea. While this technique originates from online services it can be applied to physical products just as easily. The goal of a landing page is to attract traffic and then test several calls to action with potential customers such as the ones outlined below. Asking people to sign-up with their email to be notified about the launch of a product is a simple way to ask potential customers for a small “investment” (e.g. taking the time to sign up and handing over their email address)
  • 6. that proves their interest. Getting people to fill out a survey is another action that can provide valuable information about people’s interest. However, as outlined previously for interviews, surveys are a great source for information, but not a reliable source of facts. The main fact resulting from people filling out a survey is that they are willing to invest their time. Measuring click activity on your landing page is another source of interesting learning. If you have several elements on your landing page visitors will click on those. So-called heat maps will show you where visitors click most and you’ll often be in for a surprise. Copyright Strategyzer AG The makers of Business Model Generation and Strategyzer strategyzer.com
  • 7. What you measure: Are potential customers interested enough in the features of your value proposition to buy? Will they put their money where there mouth is? Validating your customers’ interest and gathering facts that prove you are addressing issues that are relevant to them is not sufficient. You also want to prove that they are willing to pay you for addressing those issues. The following techniques allow you to get started on testing your customers’ willingness to pay: • “Fake” Sales • Pre-Sales • Minimum Viable Products “Fake” Sales There is a big difference between people telling you they are interested in your value proposition and them pulling out their wallet, credit card, or unlocking a budget in a business to business
  • 8. environment. It’s the difference between information and facts. Simulating a “fake” sales for an unfinished or even non-existing value proposition is a great way to get to those facts. Of course you need to manage what happens once the “customer” has completed the “fake” purchase, since the value proposition doesn’t yet exist. Being transparent, explaining them that it was a test and then offering them a future discount for the value proposition you are testing or giving them another goodie is usually a powerful way to turn them into great advocates for your cause. There are several techniques to simulate a purchase. The simplest technique to simulate a purchase is to put a buy now button on your website or landing page. You can go as far as collecting credit card information (but then destroying them immediately) or simply measure the number of clicks on the button. You can easily do this for digital as well as physical products. Testing willingness & ability to pay
  • 9. Copyright Strategyzer AG The makers of Business Model Generation and Strategyzer strategyzer.com An established technique in fast moving consumer goods (FMCGs) is the “fake” sales of a product in only one retail location for a very limited amount of time. Don’t confound this with a pilot sales, which is usually more extensive and more expensive and often covers an entire market. Traditional pilot sales usually come much later in the testing process. Pre-Sales Pre-selling before a value proposition or prod- uct fully exists has become an increasingly popular method to test market interest. Sev- eral internet platforms have made pre-sell- ing a very easy process. While pre-sales is relatively standard process in large industrial investment goods it is now also very common in mass market consumer goods. Kickstarter is one of the most popular
  • 10. platforms for pre-selling. You can advertise a project on the platform and people can pledge money to make it happen if they like it. Projects only receive the money if they reach their funding goals. Collecting credit card information on your own platform, but charging them later is more complicated than using an off-the- shelf platform, but perfectly possible. The advantage is that you retain the full control over the legal and commercial aspects. Copyright Strategyzer AG The makers of Business Model Generation and Strategyzer strategyzer.com letter of intent Pledges, letters of intent, and signatures under non-legally binding documents are a powerful technique to test potential customers’ willingness to buy even if they are not
  • 11. a binding pre-sales. Minimum Viable Products (aka prototyping) The so-called Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a value proposition, product, service, or feature. It was initially used for web applications and popularized by Eric Ries. An MVP is not always a smaller or cheaper version of your final product. Often a cheaper proxy allows you to test the assumptions underlying your value proposition more quickly and more cost effectively. Ask yourself what you really want to learn and what the cheapest hack possible is to test that assumption. Copyright Strategyzer AG The makers of Business Model Generation and Strategyzer strategyzer.com What you measure: Which features of your value proposition do potential customers prefer? What do they really value? What do they prioritize? When you are designing a value proposition you will often be
  • 12. confronted with the question of which issues are more relevant to customers or which features they value more. Generating facts on your customers’ preferences and priorities is a much better approach to design than prioritizing solely based on your assumptions. The techniques outlined in this section also allow you to learn more about your customers’ take on alternative prices. The following techniques allow you to get started on testing your customers’ preferences: • Split Testing • Innovation Games® Split Testing Split testing, also known as so-called A/B testing is a powerful technique to test the performance of two or more options. You compare two or more identical versions of a value proposition, minimum viable product or landing page with one variation per version that you want to test. Even marginal changes can sometimes have a major impact on behavior. In e-commerce, for example, the location of a purchasing button,
  • 13. the color of a website, etc. can all have major impacts on purchasing behavior. The goal of split testing is to identify changes that increase or maximize an outcome of interest. Landing pages are the most common technique used to perform split tests for new value propositions. For this book, for example, we tested several book titles by performing split tests. Testing Preferences & Priorities Copyright Strategyzer AG The makers of Business Model Generation and Strategyzer strategyzer.com Split tests can also be applied to physical products or services by using split groups. For example, in fast moving consumer goods, retailers often test the best location of goods in their shelves and aisles. Nothing prevents you from testing services with slightly different features with customer and measuring the behavior. Innovation Games® Innovation Games® are a powerful technique popularized by
  • 14. Luke Hohmann that help you unearth, describe, and prioritize value propositions and features by using collaborative play with your customers. These games can be played by customers online or in person. Below you find three of several Innovation Games® that help you in your undertaking to design stuff people want. Prune the Product Tree uses the metaphor of a gardener pruning a tree to map out how customers would like to see the features of a value proposition grow over time. In this game customers place index cards with features on the drawing of a tree to shape its growth. Cards on the outer edges of the tree are con- sidered longer term features and represent the future. Cards placed closest represent features to add in the near term.
  • 15. Copyright Strategyzer AG The makers of Business Model Generation and Strategyzer strategyzer.com The Buy a Feature game gets customers to prioritize features, rather than just debat- ing which features customers find most important. In this game you give customers a list of potential features and provide each with a price. Just like for a real product, the price can be based on development costs, customer value, or something else. Custom- ers buy features that they want in the next release of your product using play money you give them. In the Product Box game customers are asked to imagine that they’re selling your product at a trade show, retail outlet, or public market. They are given a few cardboard boxes and asked to literally design a product box that they would buy. The box should have the key marketing slogans that they find interesting. Ask your customer to use their box to
  • 16. sell you your product. You will learn what they appreciate most about your product and what they find most important. Module 3 Problem SetsPrinciples of EconomicsName:Date: Question #1Question #1: Draw a perfectly inelastic supply curve.Answer: Question #2Question #2: If elasticity of demand is 0.5 and price is lowered from $20 to $19, by what percentage will quantity demanded rise?Answer: Question #3Question #3: (a) Illustrate a tax increase. (b) State what happens to equilibrium price and quantity.Answers: Question #4Question #4: If the price of eye surgery falls by 50- percent and the quantity of contact lenses demanded falls by 25- percent, find the cross-price elasticity of demand for theses two goods.Answer: Question #5Question #5: A perfect competitor would never charge more than market price because ________________; the perfect competitor would never charge less than market price because ________________________. Answers: Question #6Question #6: How much is the firm's most efficient output?Answer: Question #7Question #7: At an output of 9, MC = 20 and AVC = $25. At an output of 10, MC = $32 and AVC = $26. What is the lowest price the firm will accept in the short-run?Answer: Question #8 Question #9 Question #10 Question #11Question #11: There are basically only two justifications for monopolies:Answers:12 Question #12Question #12: The main economic criticism of monopolies and big business in general is that they are ________________________________.Answer: Question #13Question #13: Price discrimination occurs when a
  • 17. seller charges _________________________ for the same good or service.Answer: Question #14Question #14: The monopolistic competitor's demand curve slopes ________________________________________.Answer: Question #15Question #15: U.S. Steel and a few cigarette companies were all engage in _________________________ to attain their economic ends.Answer: Question #16Question #16: The oligopolist ________________________ at the minimum point of his or her ATC curve.Answer: Question #17Question #17: The most important cartel in the world today is __________________________________________.Answer: Module 4 Problem SetsPrinciples of EconomicsName:Date: Question #1Net Exports = _________________ - _________________________.Answers: Question #2The three members of NAFTA are _______________, __________________, and__________________________.Answers: Question #3Our exports of goods and services are about ____________ percent of our GDP in 2016.Answer: Question #4The only trading bloc that has eliminated all its international tariffs is ___________________________.Answer: Question #5The main concern of the labor union members who were protesting against the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank was ___________________.Answer: Question #6______________________________ measures total production in one year.Answer: Question #7Per capita real GDP is found by dividing _______________________ by ______________________.Answers: Question #8Given the following information, calculate NDP: GDP = $5 trillion and Depreciation = $500 billion.Answer: Question #9If depreciation is $400 billion and NDP is $6
  • 18. trillion, how much is GDP?Answer: Question #10Find per capita GDP when population is 100 million and GDP is $2 trillion.Answer: Question #11Find per capita GDP when GDP is $1.5 trillion and population is 300 million.Answer: Question #12If real GDP goes up by 3.7-percent and the GDP deflator goes up by 1.6-percent, find the percentage change in GDP.Answer: Question #13If consumption spending is $3 trillion, investment is $800 billion, government spending is $1 trillion, imports are $1.2 trillion, and exports are $900 billion, how much is GDP?Answer: Question #14Over time, per capita real GDP comparisons become _____________valid.Answer: Question #15GDP includes only payments for ____________________________________.Answer: