2. Agenda for Class 3
• Q&A about Value Proposition
• Team Presentations: Value Proposition
Findings
• Summary about Customer Segments
• Work for Next Week
5. What we want to avoid
Market
Your
solution
Costumer
Job or
Problem
6. Customer
Development
“A startups don’t fail
because they lack a
product; they fail
because they lack
customers and a
profitable business
model.”
Steve Blank
11. Good
Did or do
Don’t assume
Don’t ask for opinions
Let them speak about examples or experiences
12. Presentation Format
• List the experiments (slide 4)
• Describe the experiments (slide 5-n)
• What we thought (hypothesis)
• What we did (experiment)
• What we found (results)
• What we are going to do next (action)
13. Waterfall vs Agile
Waterfall: founders assume they understand
the customer problem and they specify a
solution (spec sheet)
Agile: use MVPs to find the “Minimum Feature
Set”
15. Value Proposition
Canvas
• Products & Services: your offer to help
your customer
• Pain Relievers: what pains are alleviated by
your products & services
• Gain Creators: what gains will your
products & services create to your
customer
17. Could your product or
service…
…produce more savings?
…make your customers feel better?
…offer a better solution?
…put an end to your customer’s difficulties?
…eliminate risks your customers fear?
…wipe out negative social consequences?
19. Could your product or
service…
…create savings for your customer?
…exceed your customer’s expectations?
…outperform current value propositions?
…make your customer’s life easier?
…fulfill a desire of your customers?
…help make adoption easier?
27. Types
• B2B (Business to Business): use or buy
inside a company
• B2C (Business to Consumer): use or buy by
consumers
• B2B2C: sell a business to get to a consumer
or other multi-sided markets
28. B2B
• What are the company needs?
• What is the market?
• Who is the customer in a company?
• How does the company buy?
• How do they hear about you?
29. B2C
• What the consumer needs?
• What is the market?
• Do they buy it for themselves? Need
approval?
• How the consumer decides to buy?
• What is the sales channel?
30. Multi-Sided Markets
• Who is the customer?
• Value proposition for each customer?
• Revenue stream for each customer?
• Some segments may not exist without
others?
• Which segment to start?
32. Physical prototypes help!
• Handing dentists a crude clay mockup got us better, more
actionable feedback
• A great way of gauging whether new functionality satisfies a need
34. Presentation for Next
Week
• Slide 1: Cover slide
• Slide 2: Business Model Canvas (changes marked in red,
different colors for multi-sided markets)
• Slide 3: Value Proposition Canvas (product/services, pain
relievers, gain creators, MVP)
• Slide 4: How do customers solve the problem today?
How does your value proposition help?
35. Presentation for Next
Week (cont.)
• Slide 5-n: What did you learn about your Customers:
hypothesis, experiments, results, action
• Slide n+1: Diagram of customer workflow
• Slide n+2: Customer archetype
36. Before Next Class
• Talk to 10 customers about Customer
Segments
• Update LPC Narrative and Canvas
• MVP: site or wireframe (web/mobile),
prototype, model, crowdfunding (physical
product)
• Prepare Class Presentation
• Watch Lecture 4: Channels