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3. Developing Startup Ideas
Opportunity Recognition
Identification of potential new products or
services that may lead to promising
businesses
Entrepreneurial Alertness
Readiness to act on unnoticed business
opportunities and to pivot quickly away
from flawed initial ideas.
4. Developing Startup Ideas
(cont.)
Which Product or Service?
Serves important consumer needs
Has readily recognized utility and user
benefits
Is affordable to a large group of potential
customers
5. Creating a New Business from
Scratch
3–5
To develop a
commercial
market for
new product
or service
Wanting the
challenge of
succeeding
(or failing)
on your own
Motivations
To Start
a Business
To tap into
unique
resources
that are
available
To avoid
undesirable
features of
existing
companies
7. 3–7
Common Sources of Startup Ideas
Prior work
experience
45%
Personal
interest/hobby
16%
Chance
happening
11%
Suggestion
7%
Education/
Family
business
6% Friends/
relatives
5% Other
4%
8. Using Innovative Thinking to
Generate Business Ideas
1. Borrow ideas from existing products and
services or other industries.
2. Combine two businesses into one to
create a market opening.
3. Begin with a problem in mind.
4. Recognize a hot trend and ride the wave.
5. Explore ways to improve an existing
product or service’s function.
6. Think of how to streamline a customer’s
activities.
9. Using Innovative Thinking to
Generate Business Ideas
(cont.)
7. Adapt a product or service to meet
customer needs in different ways.
8. Imagine how market for a product or
service could be expanded.
9. Offer products through a subscription
service.
10. Cash in on the sharing economy.
11. Study a product or service to see if you
can make it “green.”
12. Keep an eye on new technologies.
10. Using Internal and External
Analyses to Assess Business
Ideas
• Outside-In Analysis
Studying context of venture to identify
and determine business ideas that
qualify as opportunities.
General Environment
o Encompasses factors influencing business in a
society.
Industry Environment
o Factors that impact a firm and all of its competitors.
Competitive Environment
o Focus on the strength, position, and likely moves
and countermoves of competitors in an industry.
13. The Competitive Environment
• Who would be the new venture’s current
competitors?
• What unique resources do they control?
• What are their strengths and weaknesses?
• How will they respond to the new venture’s
decision to enter the industry?
• How can the new venture respond?
• Who else might see and exploit the same
opportunity?
• Are there ways to co-opt potential or actual
competitors by forming alliances?
14. Evaluating Market
Opportunities
• Inside-Out Analysis
Assessing the firm’s internal competitive
potential
• Resources
Basic inputs that a firm uses to conduct
its business
Tangible resources: visible and easy to
measure.
Intangible resources: invisible, difficult to
quantify
• Capabilities
Routines and processes that can
15. Evaluating Market
Opportunities
• Capabilities
Routines and processes that can
coordinate the combined use of
productive assets in order to achieve
desired outcomes.
• Core Competencies
Capabilities that provide a firm with a
competitive advantage over its rivals and
reflect its personality.
16. Integrating Internal and
External Analyses
• Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT)
Analysis
Provides concise overview of firm’s
strategic situation.
Helps identify opportunities that match
the venture.
19. Important Strategic Terms
• Strategy
Plan of action that coordinates resources
and commitments of an organization to
achieve superior performance.
• Strategic Decision
Regards the direction a firm will take in
relating to its customers and competitors.
• Sustainable Competitive Advantage
A value-creating industry position likely
to endure over time.
20. Selecting Strategies That Capture Opportunities
Broad-Based
Strategy Options
Cost-Based
Strategy
Focus
Strategy
Differentiation-
Based Strategy
21. Focus Strategies
• Focus Strategy Implementation
Restricting focus to a single subset of
customers.
Emphasizing a single product or service.
Limiting the market to a single
geographical region.
Concentrating on superiority of product
or service.
22. Focus Strategies (cont.)
• Advantages
Niche market shields from direct
competition.
Focus allows development of unique
expertise.
• Disadvantages
Focus markets can quickly erode if:
Competitors successfully imitate the strategy.
Segment erodes or demand disappears.
Segment loses its uniqueness.
New firms subsegment the industry.
23. Factors in Business Idea
Screening
Strength of the
business idea
Industry and
competitive
advantage
Screening
a Business
Idea
Capability of
founders
Capital requirements
and venture
performance
Targeted market
and customers
24. Is Your Startup Idea Feasible?
Market
Factors
Competitive
Advantage
Judging the
Feasibility of
a Business
Opportunity
Management
Capability
Industry
Attractiveness
Fatal
Flaws
25. Is Your Startup Idea Feasible?
• Feasibility Analysis
A preliminary assessment of a business idea
that gauges whether or not the venture
envisioned is likely to succeed
• Fatal Flaws
A circumstance or development that alone could
render a new business unsuccessful
Market potential: acceptance, accessibility,
growth, and size
Power of competitors
Strength of competitive advantage
Startup costs
27. Is Your Startup Idea Feasible
(cont.)?
• New Venture Leadership
Dimensions of Management Capability
1. Fit of the venture with leader’s mission,
aspirations, and comfort level with risk
involved
2. Leader’s grasp of critical enterprise success
factors and ability to execute on these factors
3. Leader’s connection to others who will be
essential to making the venture work
28. Key Terms
capabilities
competitive advantage
competitive environment
core competencies
cost-based strategy
differentiation-based strategy
entrepreneurial alertness
fatal flaw
feasibility analysis
focus strategy
general environment
industry environment
intangible resources
new benefit ideas
new market ideas
new technology ideas
opportunity recognition
pivot
resources
serendipity
startups
strategy
SWOT analysis
tangible resources