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Session 3
Update the customer
problems and goals
Key reasons businesses fail is that their
plan is based on false assumptions
Goal 1
Customer
Goal 2
Which of your initial
Customers goal and problem
assumptions are correct and
which were false?
Goal 3
Problem 1
Problem 2
Problem 3
Goal 1
Customer
Goal 2
Task (Time: 10 minutes)
1 Remove false assumptions
2 Add new problems and goals
patterns
Goal 3
Problem 1
Problem 2
Problem 3
New problem
Product and features design
Minimum variable product
Great Idea
Great Product
Great Company
How do you build a great product
with so little resources?
Build something a small number of user love
Source: YCombinator
Version 4Version 1 Version 2 Version 3
The only thing that matters is product/market fit
- Marc Andreessen
Feature 1
Goal 1 Customer
Goal 2
Feature 2
Product-Market fit happens when
The product helps the customers
1. Achieve their goals
2. Solve their problems
Better than the current solutions
Feature 3
Goal 3
App to
call a taxi
Get to my
destination
Traveller
Taxi’s are
expensiveRating of taxi
driver
Standard
pricing
Drivers are rude
Arrive late &
unreliable
Can’t hear the
driver
Payment
is hassle
Clean
cars
Polite drivers
Feel
Used /
Ripped off
Geo-tracking
Feature 1
Feature 2
Feature 3
Feature 4
Feature 5
Feature 6
Tasks (Time: 10 minutes)
1. Add product, services and features
to your canvas
2. Ensure your product, services and
features solve your customer
problems
Messaging design
Create a story: Who?
Onhub Slow speeds
Home
Wifi user
Shouldn’t
Wifi be
easier
Lost connections
Communications
With an app
Not blinking lights
Starts fast and
Stays fast
Hard to set up
Hard to trouble
shoot
Juicero
Buy expensive
fruit &
vegetables
Home
Juicer
Squashed
Produce
Wash fruit and
vegetables
Delivered to
Your door
Taken care of
everything –
washing, peeling,
chopping, growing.
Assemble
Juicer
Clean up juicerThere is
Nothing to
clean
100% organic
100% raw
Create a compelling one line pitch
The 4-hour
Body
Real ad look at feel
1 human
guinea pig
100+ Scientist
consulted
10 years of
experiments
Hold your
Breath fo 5
minutes
Run 100 miles
Use credibility indicators and customer goals
Lift 500 pounds
Messaging best practice
1 Link messaging to problems
2 Clear one line pitch
3 Use credibility indicators
4 Use customer goals
Product Message 1
Message 3
Message 2
Task (Time 10 mins)
1 Add messaging and stories for
your product.
2 Ensure that your messaging fits
with your customer goals and
problems.
Story 1
Story 2
Minimum viable product
Minimum variable product
MVP definition:
A version of the product or marketing that will help you learn
the most about customer behaviour with the least effort
How most startups launch
Business Plan Launch
Product
Development
Learning happens here!Months / Years
A lean startup
Run
Experiments
Launch
Product
Development
Learn if idea will work!
Months / Years
Warning!!!
What happens if you don’t pre-sell?
0 /1700
Minimum variable product
What could they have done differently?
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400
1 day
365 days
Do you want to waste 365 days?
Types of MVPs
0 100 200 300 400
1 Day
Months / Years
Slide Presentation
Full product
0 100 200 300 400
Days
Months / Years
Full product
Landing page
Landing page MVP
0 100 200 300 400
Weeks
Months / Years
Consulting MVP
Full product
Consulting
0 100 200 300 400
Days
Months / Years
Video MVP
Full product
Video
0 100 200 300 400
Weeks / Months
Months / Years
Crowdfunding MVP
Full product
Crowd funding
0 100 200 300 400
Weeks / Months
Months / Years
Audience MVP
Full product
Email list
0 100 200 300 400
Weeks
Months / Years
Wizard of Oz MVP
Full product
Wizard of Oz
0 100 200 300 400
Weeks / Months
Months / Years
Other people’s product MVP
Full product
Competitor
Product
0 100 200 300 400
Days
Months / Years
Advert MVP
Full product
Online ads
0 100 200 300 400
Days
Months / Years
Feature MVP
Full product
Feature
To build a great product start small
Task (Time: 10 minutes)
1 Create a list of MVPs that you would be relevant for your product
2 Decide which MVP you will build first.
(Start with the MVP that will give you the most learning in the shortest amount of
time).
Solution interviews
Why do solution interviews?
Can’t I just build my product and then sell it?
Interview script
1 Rapport
2 Customer indicator question
3 Give context
4 Demonstration
5 Pre-sales / price testing
6 Thanks
Questions
1 Would you agree this is your biggest
problem?
2 Demo product
• What features do you like?
• What features would be most useful?
• What don’t you like about the solution?
• Which features would you use every day?
3 After demo
• Do you think this will solve your problem?
• What could be improved?
• What would you change?
4 Pre-sales
• Do you want to be part of the pilot for X?
Questions
1 Would you agree these are your goals and
problems?
2 Demo product
• What features do you like?
• What features would be most useful?
• What don’t you like about the solution?
• Which features would you use every day?
3 After demo
• Do you think this will solve your problem?
• What could be improved?
• What would you change?
4 Pre-sales
• Do you want to be part of the pilot for X?
Questions
1 Would you agree these are your goals and
problems?
2 Demo product
• What features do you like?
• What features would be most useful?
• What don’t you like about the solution?
• Which features would you use every day?
3 After demo
• Do you think this will solve your problem?
• What could be improved?
• What would you change?
4 Pre-sales
• Do you want to be part of the pilot for X?
Questions
1 Would you agree these are your goals and
problems?
2 Demo product
• What features do you like?
• What features would be most useful?
• What don’t you like about the solution?
• Which features would you use every day?
3 After demo
• Do you think this will solve your problem?
• What could be improved?
• What would you change?
4 Pre-sales
• Do you want to be part of the pilot for X?
Do you want to be put on the waiting list?
Solution
interview with
Slide
presentation
Sponsors
Face to face
meeting
5
Interviews
Interested in
running a pilot
2 / 5
Ran a pilot
There is
sponsorship
money
availabe
Build a
sponsorship
model
Solution
interview with
Slide
presentation
Sponsors
Face to face
meeting
5
Interviews
Interested in
running a pilot
Task (Time: 10 minutes)
1 Plan a solution interview experiment
2 Decide what MVP you will use to show the customer
Interview customers
• Get out of the building
• Conduct customer interviews (Phone or face-to-face)
• Aim to do at least 10 interviews
• Aim to run and analyse 2 experiments
• Next presentation at 16:30
• Feel free to ask for help from the team after each experiment
• If you are already up and running ask someone on the team to help
you design a relevant experiment for your business
1. Signed up to your landing page.
2. Purchased the product or service.
3. Pre-paid for the product or service.
4. Willing to pilot with solution with you.
5. Got excited by the solution you pitched to them.
How do you test if they will buy?
8 / 10
Signed up
8 / 10
Purchased
8 / 10
Pre-paid
8 / 10
Pilot
8 / 10
Got excited
1. Get a single conversation (1/10). Understand why. Improve. Goal (10/10).
2. Create a high bar (8/10). Quickly invalidate ideas. Next idea.
3. Your current conversation ratio (?/10). Improve.
4. Statistical significance (95/99% level).
5. Financial model. What does conversation rate need to be for the business to
be viable?
How do you determine the conversation ratio?
? / 10
Signed up
Solution
Discovery
Interview
8 / 10
Pre-paid
4 Preparing solution pitch
Solution Slide Presentation
Logo
Picture
Amazing one-line headline
that is easy to understand
and has key benefit in it.
Amazing sub-headline that is easy to
understand.
CTA for offer
Social media buttons
Key benefit / feature
Description of feature / benefit.
Key benefit / feature
Description of feature / benefit.
Key benefit / feature
Description of feature / benefit.
Key benefit / feature
Description of feature / benefit.
Price 1
• Feature
• Feature
• Feature
Price 2
• Feature
• Feature
• Feature
Price 3
• Feature
• Feature
• Feature
Quote from problem / solution interviews.
- Persons name
• Create a 3 page landing page of your solution
• Use a landing page format
• Time 30 mins
Slide 1
Slide 2
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Session 3 - Solution interviews

  • 3. Key reasons businesses fail is that their plan is based on false assumptions
  • 4. Goal 1 Customer Goal 2 Which of your initial Customers goal and problem assumptions are correct and which were false? Goal 3 Problem 1 Problem 2 Problem 3
  • 5. Goal 1 Customer Goal 2 Task (Time: 10 minutes) 1 Remove false assumptions 2 Add new problems and goals patterns Goal 3 Problem 1 Problem 2 Problem 3 New problem
  • 9. How do you build a great product with so little resources?
  • 10. Build something a small number of user love Source: YCombinator
  • 11. Version 4Version 1 Version 2 Version 3
  • 12. The only thing that matters is product/market fit - Marc Andreessen
  • 13. Feature 1 Goal 1 Customer Goal 2 Feature 2 Product-Market fit happens when The product helps the customers 1. Achieve their goals 2. Solve their problems Better than the current solutions Feature 3 Goal 3
  • 14. App to call a taxi Get to my destination Traveller Taxi’s are expensiveRating of taxi driver Standard pricing Drivers are rude Arrive late & unreliable Can’t hear the driver Payment is hassle Clean cars Polite drivers Feel Used / Ripped off Geo-tracking
  • 15. Feature 1 Feature 2 Feature 3 Feature 4 Feature 5 Feature 6 Tasks (Time: 10 minutes) 1. Add product, services and features to your canvas 2. Ensure your product, services and features solve your customer problems
  • 18. Onhub Slow speeds Home Wifi user Shouldn’t Wifi be easier Lost connections Communications With an app Not blinking lights Starts fast and Stays fast Hard to set up Hard to trouble shoot
  • 19.
  • 20. Juicero Buy expensive fruit & vegetables Home Juicer Squashed Produce Wash fruit and vegetables Delivered to Your door Taken care of everything – washing, peeling, chopping, growing. Assemble Juicer Clean up juicerThere is Nothing to clean 100% organic 100% raw
  • 21. Create a compelling one line pitch
  • 22.
  • 23. The 4-hour Body Real ad look at feel 1 human guinea pig 100+ Scientist consulted 10 years of experiments Hold your Breath fo 5 minutes Run 100 miles Use credibility indicators and customer goals Lift 500 pounds
  • 24. Messaging best practice 1 Link messaging to problems 2 Clear one line pitch 3 Use credibility indicators 4 Use customer goals
  • 25. Product Message 1 Message 3 Message 2 Task (Time 10 mins) 1 Add messaging and stories for your product. 2 Ensure that your messaging fits with your customer goals and problems. Story 1 Story 2
  • 27. Minimum variable product MVP definition: A version of the product or marketing that will help you learn the most about customer behaviour with the least effort
  • 28. How most startups launch Business Plan Launch Product Development Learning happens here!Months / Years
  • 30. Warning!!! What happens if you don’t pre-sell? 0 /1700
  • 31. Minimum variable product What could they have done differently?
  • 32.
  • 33.
  • 34.
  • 35. 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 1 day 365 days Do you want to waste 365 days?
  • 37. 0 100 200 300 400 1 Day Months / Years Slide Presentation Full product
  • 38.
  • 39. 0 100 200 300 400 Days Months / Years Full product Landing page Landing page MVP
  • 40. 0 100 200 300 400 Weeks Months / Years Consulting MVP Full product Consulting
  • 41. 0 100 200 300 400 Days Months / Years Video MVP Full product Video
  • 42. 0 100 200 300 400 Weeks / Months Months / Years Crowdfunding MVP Full product Crowd funding
  • 43. 0 100 200 300 400 Weeks / Months Months / Years Audience MVP Full product Email list
  • 44. 0 100 200 300 400 Weeks Months / Years Wizard of Oz MVP Full product Wizard of Oz
  • 45. 0 100 200 300 400 Weeks / Months Months / Years Other people’s product MVP Full product Competitor Product
  • 46. 0 100 200 300 400 Days Months / Years Advert MVP Full product Online ads
  • 47. 0 100 200 300 400 Days Months / Years Feature MVP Full product Feature
  • 48.
  • 49.
  • 50. To build a great product start small
  • 51. Task (Time: 10 minutes) 1 Create a list of MVPs that you would be relevant for your product 2 Decide which MVP you will build first. (Start with the MVP that will give you the most learning in the shortest amount of time).
  • 53. Why do solution interviews? Can’t I just build my product and then sell it?
  • 54.
  • 55.
  • 56. Interview script 1 Rapport 2 Customer indicator question 3 Give context 4 Demonstration 5 Pre-sales / price testing 6 Thanks
  • 57. Questions 1 Would you agree this is your biggest problem? 2 Demo product • What features do you like? • What features would be most useful? • What don’t you like about the solution? • Which features would you use every day? 3 After demo • Do you think this will solve your problem? • What could be improved? • What would you change? 4 Pre-sales • Do you want to be part of the pilot for X?
  • 58. Questions 1 Would you agree these are your goals and problems? 2 Demo product • What features do you like? • What features would be most useful? • What don’t you like about the solution? • Which features would you use every day? 3 After demo • Do you think this will solve your problem? • What could be improved? • What would you change? 4 Pre-sales • Do you want to be part of the pilot for X?
  • 59. Questions 1 Would you agree these are your goals and problems? 2 Demo product • What features do you like? • What features would be most useful? • What don’t you like about the solution? • Which features would you use every day? 3 After demo • Do you think this will solve your problem? • What could be improved? • What would you change? 4 Pre-sales • Do you want to be part of the pilot for X?
  • 60. Questions 1 Would you agree these are your goals and problems? 2 Demo product • What features do you like? • What features would be most useful? • What don’t you like about the solution? • Which features would you use every day? 3 After demo • Do you think this will solve your problem? • What could be improved? • What would you change? 4 Pre-sales • Do you want to be part of the pilot for X? Do you want to be put on the waiting list?
  • 61. Solution interview with Slide presentation Sponsors Face to face meeting 5 Interviews Interested in running a pilot 2 / 5 Ran a pilot There is sponsorship money availabe Build a sponsorship model
  • 62. Solution interview with Slide presentation Sponsors Face to face meeting 5 Interviews Interested in running a pilot Task (Time: 10 minutes) 1 Plan a solution interview experiment 2 Decide what MVP you will use to show the customer
  • 63. Interview customers • Get out of the building • Conduct customer interviews (Phone or face-to-face) • Aim to do at least 10 interviews • Aim to run and analyse 2 experiments • Next presentation at 16:30 • Feel free to ask for help from the team after each experiment • If you are already up and running ask someone on the team to help you design a relevant experiment for your business
  • 64. 1. Signed up to your landing page. 2. Purchased the product or service. 3. Pre-paid for the product or service. 4. Willing to pilot with solution with you. 5. Got excited by the solution you pitched to them. How do you test if they will buy? 8 / 10 Signed up 8 / 10 Purchased 8 / 10 Pre-paid 8 / 10 Pilot 8 / 10 Got excited
  • 65. 1. Get a single conversation (1/10). Understand why. Improve. Goal (10/10). 2. Create a high bar (8/10). Quickly invalidate ideas. Next idea. 3. Your current conversation ratio (?/10). Improve. 4. Statistical significance (95/99% level). 5. Financial model. What does conversation rate need to be for the business to be viable? How do you determine the conversation ratio? ? / 10 Signed up
  • 69.
  • 70.
  • 71.
  • 72. Logo Picture Amazing one-line headline that is easy to understand and has key benefit in it. Amazing sub-headline that is easy to understand. CTA for offer Social media buttons Key benefit / feature Description of feature / benefit. Key benefit / feature Description of feature / benefit. Key benefit / feature Description of feature / benefit. Key benefit / feature Description of feature / benefit. Price 1 • Feature • Feature • Feature Price 2 • Feature • Feature • Feature Price 3 • Feature • Feature • Feature Quote from problem / solution interviews. - Persons name • Create a 3 page landing page of your solution • Use a landing page format • Time 30 mins Slide 1 Slide 2 Slide 3

Notas do Editor

  1. My Startup Failed. Fuck. I finally said it, my startup failed. Fuck. I felt like I was coming out of the closet when I first stated it aloud to my co-founder. We both knew for months it was not working out, but we never explicitly defined our situation as a failed one. Now that the elephant in the room has a name, we’ll call him “Dumbo” which stands for “Didn’t Understand Markets Brain Outline”.  That right there was our main problem. Our market demographic was musicians, and although a few of us had worked around the industry, we concluded recently we were not music SALES domain experts. The product was a flash sale platform for musicians to release their music using dynamic pricing (zillionears.com).  To us, this software was a no brainer for musicians to use. The artists get to engage their fans while enticing their community to share with friends. So we talked to a few artists who said they thought it was a cool idea. BOOM! Our idea had been validated! After that moment we basically stopped talking to artists for a year and built (and rebuilt) the software until we thought it was acceptable. Our first beta test was a disaster when Amazon (who was our payment processor) suspended our account for not complying with money transfer issues. Fans were able to participate in the sale, but we were unable to capture their billing. We ended up paying the artist out of our own pocket and giving everyone his music for free (and we never told him that happened until now). From that beta test we found out that our software needed to be rewritten to comply with Amazons terms. More importantly though, people really didn’t really LIKE anything about our product. No one that used the service thought it was that cool. In fact, some people that participated in the sale didn’t even like our “dynamic pricing” system. They were trying to support the artist, so saving a few dollars didn’t excite them. They could easily have just gotten his music for free elsewhere. We should have packed it up early right then, but we felt like we had already gone too far to quit. We rebuilt (and re-designed) the majority of the software, got approved by Amazon, and reached out to over 1,700 artists (each individually through different platforms). We got between 1 and 10 artists interested. Again, this just screams “PUT IT OUT OF ITS MISERY!” But we kept going. Finally the day came for our second beta (which was totally gonna kick ass for sure). The artist we had on board set up his sale page and was ready to go. Only problem is he totally misunderstood what our software was all about. Once he found out about the dynamic pricing he tells us “I think I am just going to release with another platform.” FUCK! Are you serious???? After that we spent another month slowly letting it linger in our day to day lives. We went for one last ditch effort to make a press release, but couldn’t get a single artist (out of the 1,700+ we talked to) to run a sale. My co-founder called me to tell me this news. I asked him “Would you like to use my gun?” I was referring to the scene in The Social Network where Zuckerberg’s lawyer asks Saverin “Would you like to use my pen?” to manipulatively sign his shares over. I, of course, was referring to shooting this fucking company in the head and moving on with our lives! He agreed. We took Zillionears out back, and shot it in the head. It felt good. Although our company did not succeed the way we would have hoped for, we all learned more in the past year than we had in college. Our insights and experiences have been invaluable. For each of my future posts I will go into detail about the things I learned while on this journey, and how to apply the knowledge to future startups so you can avoid ending up in a room with “Dumbo”! Hit me up on twitter! I just got on there. I love to talk to folks about startup experiences! @nemrow