ENTREPRENEURSHIP WORKSHOP (5 marks multiple choice) Flashcards
What is a STARTUP?
A human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty
Who is an ENTREPRENEUR?
An entrepreneur is a person who creates value exchanges through new products or services under conditions of extreme uncertainty
Entrepreneurial mindset
GROWTH MINDSET
Views intelligence, abilities, and talents as learnable and capable of improvement through
Causation Style Thinking
A causation approach focuses on a predefined goal and aims to find the means to reach this goal
Effectual Thinking
The focus is on the means at hand, which they aim to materialize into one or more goals, that were not necessarily predefined
Start with your abilities, financial means, network, education, expertise, experience, traits ⇒ to reach FUTURE GOALS
Lean Methodology Thinking
A methodology for developing businesses and products that aims to shorten product development cycles and rapidly discover if a proposed business model is viable
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
A version of the product/service which allows a team to collect maximum amount of learning with the least effort
BUILD aspect of Lean Loop
Importance of Market Research
- Unfounded assumption and pre-existing biases can poison your decision-making process, sacrificing time, money, and emotional energy
Affect Heuristic🥲
Using emotions instead of objective information to make decision
Halo effect 😇
Attributing past success of people or organization to new ideas they bring
Motivated eros 🤤
Decision guided by self interest rather than objective analysis
Steps in Market Research
- Define your problem (build)
- Develop research plan (build)
- Collect relevant information (measure)
- Interpret your findings (measure)
- Recommendation and next steps (learn)
Discovery Stage Questions
- Show us your market research on the problem
- Show and describe your target market
- Describe how your market solved the problem today
- What is your hypothetical solution?
- Why is it different and better than existing solutions?