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Final Exam Nail it then scale it Flashcards

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Why do most entrepreneurs fail?

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“Entrepreneurs fail precisely because they believe in their idea and then follow conventional wisdom about how to build a new product or a new business. In doing so, they tackle the wrong tasks, do good things in the wrong order, and in the end fall prey to their strengths.”

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3 myths of Entrepreneurship

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Hero, Process, Money

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Hero Myth

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passionate, determined, visionary entrepreneurs lead to failure more than they lead them to success. Fall in love with their product. passion, vision, and determination don’t lead to success.

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Process Myth

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Don’t follow the correct way to build a product: “If you build it they will come”

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Money Myth

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Money leads to success. Money at the wrong time can kill you.

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fundamental attribution error

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Attributing any success from Entrepreneurs to the personal qualities of the individual.

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Traditional Product Development

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  1. Identify product opportunity
  2. Create product specs
  3. Build Alpha product
  4. Test product, build beta product
  5. Sell product
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raditional Entrepreneurship Process Model

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  1. Entrepreneur has a idea
  2. Discuss with/raise money from friends, family and fools
  3. Find a location
  4. develop the product
  5. perfect the product and add features for broad appeal
  6. sell the product.
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What is the reason most entrepreneurs fail?

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They didn’t build what the customers wanted.

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Money More or less. Why?

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The truth is less money can help you focus on the external market–on your customers– and increase your ability to develop creative solutions for those customers.

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NISI 5 steps

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  1. Nail the pain.
  2. Nail the solution.
  3. Nail the go-to-market strategy
  4. Nail the Business Model.
  5. Scale it.
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Innovation distinguishes

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a leader from a follower - Steve Jobs

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What is key for a sustainable advantage?

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Understanding and empowering the innocation process

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Invention

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is the discovery of a new technology, product, or service.

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Innovation

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is the combination of an invention with insight about a market need. Lies at the intersection of invention and market insight.

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Over 90% of businesses fail because

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they couldn’t get anyone to buy it, not that they couldn’t build it

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2 fundamental risks when building

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Technology Risk → Can we make it?

Market Risk → Will customers buy it?

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Entrepreneurs _____ and customers ____

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Innovate and customers validate. Entrepreneurs jobs to nice the pain and connect that with an invention to solve a problem.

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Innovation diffusion

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The early majority sticks with the herd. The inability to establish market credibility creates a chasm between a startup and a the mass-market adoption of its products. To cross the chasm moore suggests focusing on a single industry vertical, leveraging all of your resources to win early-majority reference customer sin that segment.

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Importance of validation for bosses

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The first thing you should do is get the hell out of the building” → Steve Blank. by fact of our human nature we become convinced we understand outside world when in fact we do not

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Fail _____ and learn to _____. _____ when needed.

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Fail fast. learn to change. Pivot when needed.

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3 luck traits. Who came up with them.

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Richard Wiseman

  1. Lucky people take advantage of chance occurrences that come their way.
  2. Lucky people pay attention to what’s happening around them and, therefore, are able to extract greater value from each situation
  3. Lucky people are extraverted - they make more eye contact and smile more frequently, leading to more positive and extended encounters
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23
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Hiring. What is not an important question

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Salary

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What is the best predictor of future performance?

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past performance.

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If you don’t build your dream

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someone else will hire you to build their dream”

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I never want to build something

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no one wants to buy” -Thomas Edison

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“If i had asked customers what they wanted,

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they would have said faster horses Henry Ford

28
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4 Different Traps:

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Confirmation Trap, Motivation Trap, Overconfidence Trap, Familiarity Trap

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Confirmation Trap

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we tend to see what we already believe and discard evidence to the contrary. The confirmation bias nevertheless has a powerful effect upon out ability to learn.

30
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Motivation Trap

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sunk costs leading to irrational decision making.

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Overconfidence Trap

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Although we may be confident, we may not be right. Overconfidence leads to disasters. TRAP of NOT LISTENING.

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Familiarity Trap

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One of the challenging things most entrepreneurs struggle with is discovering what they don’t know or don’t have. Tendency to lean on your familitaries or your strengths when they may no longer be appropriate

33
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The Solution to the 4 traps:

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Developing an attitude of learning.

34
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expert novice

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Someone with knowledge and confidence, but always maintains a seed of doubt that they may be wrong.

35
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In all your innovations and throughout the invention process, focus on _____

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simplicity

36
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Simplicity increases _____ and reduces ____

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reduces cost, increases customer adoption, simplifying doesn’t mean you are taking away customers choice

37
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Keep Teams Small.. At the core you need:

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Someone to Define it, Build it, and sell it.

38
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NISI Fundamentals

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  1. get into the field
  2. fail fast and change
  3. focus on intellectually honest learning
  4. conduct rapid, inexpensive, simple experiments
39
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2 types of pain

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vitamins vs. painkillers. Mosquito Bites, vs. shark bites.

40
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Monetizable pain

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A pain so significant that the customers recognize the pain, have the money to pay for the solution, and will return a startups cold calls to solve the pain

41
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Three mistakes entrepreneurs make

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  1. Guessing but not testing the pain
  2. Selecting a small customer pain (low on the pain scale)
  3. Selecting a narrow customer pain (small number of customers willing to pay.
42
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Big idea Hypothesis (2 OF THEM)

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Break through Hypothesis or a better, faster, cheaper hypothesis.

43
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Big Idea Process Steps (5)

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  1. For
  2. who
  3. The
  4. That
  5. Unlike
  6. Our Solution 1
44
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3 tests.. memorizable pain.

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  1. Find a sample of customers
  2. Cold call or email them.
  3. Capture and Measure the results.
45
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3 Questions for Customers

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  1. Do you have this problem?
  2. Tell me about it. concerns. experience. current solutions. listen!
  3. Does something like this solve the problem?
46
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Hassle test

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Takes results from Smoke tests and asks them about the hypothesized problem and the hassle along with it.

47
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3 types of customers

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end user, a technological customer, and an economic customer.

48
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Noncustomers

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influential journalists, analysts, or investors: while they have wisdom, they aren’t necessarily your customers

49
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Sufficiently large market

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Over a billion dollars in potential sales, company can achieve over 100 million in sales

50
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Easier to compete in a slow market or rapid?

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rapidly growing markets.

51
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maslows needs 3

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  1. Food, shelter, clothing, and security
  2. Love, friendship, feel important
  3. Self fulfilment needs.
52
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Nail the solution (4 tests)

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  1. Develop a minimal feature set
  2. Virtual Prototype Test
  3. Prototype Test
  4. Solution Test
53
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The feature creep Syndrome:

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When entrepreneurs try to add as many features as possible to get more sales. Ends up losing more money and not being as effective.

54
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Toyota’s 5 why approach

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keep asking why to get to the root cause

55
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Be Extraordinary! Quote

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Be Extraordinary! everywhere, everyday and in everything!

56
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FIVE ACTIVITIES EMPLOYED TO BE MORE INNOVATIVE

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QUESTIONING
OBSERVING
EXPERIMENTING
NETWORKING
ASSOCIATING IDEAS
57
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Think Entrepreneurially:

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Challenge conventional wisdom

Break the rules!

58
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Brainstorming

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The less the better
Ideally 60 minutes in duration
100 ideas in an hour is a good rate
Write down your ideas

59
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Luck

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Being observant, open-minded, friendly and optimistic INVITES luck you way!

60
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Hiring People:

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Salary is not the most important question, instead you should give the most attention to:

  1. How much value a high talent person could reasonably bring, versus
  2. How big the cost could be from weak performance and having to replace a failure
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Top Grading

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A-players hire A-players –> Love Acct.

B-players hire C-players

62
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Starting a Business

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Naming

Business License (if you have a physical location)

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NISI fundamentals are

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  1. get into the field
  2. fail fast and change
  3. focus on intellectually honest learning
  4. conduct rapid, inexpensive, simple experiments
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Nailing solution

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Develop Minimum Feature Set
Virtual Prototype test
Prototype test
Solution test

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