team member will write in individual post-its as many problems worth to solve you can think (working in parallel)! • 5 minutes. Present the problems and organize them by groups (working together)! • 2 minutes. Select one group of the problems (achieve consensus) 24
you can build… and get into the hands of customers fast so that you can observe and measure the results... to make your product something customers want, need and love to buy. 54
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to learn something from our first product iteration. In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics or analytics.
Discovery • It’s a rudimentary solution to a problem worth solving • A MVP must still trump any alternative solution which your customers have used or considered • Basically, it’s the next step after building some landing page and running an AdWords campaign to validate some demand 67
to “test sell” at every stage. It runs a continuing series of quantitative pass/fail tests to determine whether there’s strong enough product/market fit to justify scaling sales and marketing spending
customer well funded? • Is the target customer readily accessible? • Does the target customer have a compelling reason to buy? • Can you today, with the help of partners, deliver a whole product? 76 William Aulet, MIT
competition that could block you? • If you win this segment, can you leverage it to enter additional segments? • Is the market consistent with the values, passions and goals of the founding team? 77 William Aulet, MIT
to the customer, to see if the delivery matches the customer’s expectations and makes them happy. (Learn or Confirm) 88 Aim: Deliver Customer Expectation Opportunity Cost: Medium
up a front that looks like a real working product, but you manually carry out product functions Pure Concierge. Instead of providing a product, you start with a manual service. The service should consist of exactly the same steps people would go through with your product Piecemeal a blend between approaches. Again, you emulate the steps people would go through using your product – as you envision it. But instead of delivering them manually, you emulate them using existing tools.
on your selected group of problems define a Customer/Problem Hypothesis and its assumptions! • 2 minutes. Identify your Riskiest Assumption! • 10 minutes. Determine how you will test it (including MVP Type)! • 3 minutes. Determine what success looks like 90
of testing a hypothesis with the goal of explaining reality • An experiment fails when it doesn’t provide evidence that your hypothesis is correct • There’s a big difference between how humans will predict their own behavior and how they will actually behave 96
a statement that can be clearly proven wrong • Validate Qualitatively, Verify Quantitatively • Most customers are great at articulating problems but not at visualizing solutions. 100
Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. New York: Crown Business, 2011. • Owens, Trevor, and Obie Fernandez. The Lean Enterprise: How Corporations Can Innovate like Startups. Wiley, 2014 • Blank, Steven G., and Bob Dorf. The Startup Owner's Manual the Step-by-step Guide for Building a Great Company. Pescadero, Calif.: K&S Ranch, 2012. • Maurya, Ash. Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works. 2nd ed. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2012 117
NOT an MVP http://goo.gl/ qG9a5Q • Trevor Owens.10 Awesome MVPs from Lean Startup Machine http://goo.gl/sK4e4B • Lean Startup Machine. Building a successful MVP http:// goo.gl/jUL2Qb • Lean Startup Machine. Identifying and Learning from Your Target Customers http://goo.gl/MwsOO2 • Shardul Mehta, An MVP Is Not The Smallest Collection Of Features You Can Deliver http://goo.gl/3P9de3 118
and why we all (should) care http://goo.gl/ZKsoRK • Kate Rutter. From cold-sweat questions to hot validated learning http://goo.gl/QKoBvt • businessinbeta. I want my MVP! From idea to testable artefact http://goo.gl/TA4gqB • David Binetti. The Art of the Pivot http://goo.gl/biil8j • Hiten Shah. Creating Experiments to Test Hypotheses 119