2. Product Family.
Easily understandable.
Easily Sold.
Short Development Time.
Markets and
Customers
Management
Teams
Products or
Services
Business
Plan
Financing
Proprietary Technology.
Third of Five Elements of Start-Up Success
3. Different Views to Analyze Products
• Business Model
• Customer Pains toValue Proposition
• Differentiation
• Profitability
• Compelling Reason to Buy
4. Key Requirement
• Value Proposition
• Proprietary Technology & Differentiation
• Product Family
• Easily understandable
• Easily Sold
• Short Development Time
8. Value Proposition vs Customer
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Value Proposition
• Offer
• product
• service
• features
• Pain killer
• Gain Creator
Customer
• Jobs
• Pain
• Gain
10. Key Issues
• Choosing right product
• Marketing and competitive analysis considerations
• Exceptional product attributes
• Producing your product
11. Choosing the Right Product
• High growth, high-profit-margin opportunity
- buying franchises vs selling franchises
• Convert great device to great product
-augment it with service to be easily sold and used
• Many good idea comes from previous employment
• Better idea comes from customers
12. Right Product
• Do you sell drill bits or the holes? - one sells benefits, not technology
• Do not confuse one product with business
• Make your product easily and clearly understandable
13. 4P for Startups
• Product
With whom(competing product) are you going to hang around?
• Place
Which sales channel you can access?
• Price
What is proper price to your channels?
• Promotion
Know your ROI
14. 3Value Disciplines
Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersma: The Discipline of Market Leaders (1997)
• operational excellence
• customer intimacy
• product leadership
16. Perceived cost
versus competition
Low High
High
Low
Perceiveddifferentiation
versuscompetition
Market
success
likely
Market
failure
likely
Success
highly
uncertain
Cost versus Perceived Differentiation Model
17. Differentiation Strategies
• Unique features
• Measurable customer benefits
• Ease of use
• Improved productivity
• Protecting customers investment
• Lower cost of product failure
• Higher performance
18. Differentiation Strategies (cont.)
• Unique fundamental capability
• Design
• Standard
• Total solution
• Total cost of ownership
• Brand name
• Convenience
19. Exceptional Product Attribute
• Developable and producible in a timely manner
• High gross margin
• Substantial collateral revenue - service, maintenance, accessary, updates,
supplies
• Clear distribution channels