creating start-up success
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AlexOsterwalder.com @business_design
Creating Start-Up Success 101
SteveBlank.com@sgblank
Contribution by Alan Smith @thinksmith
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BusinessModelGeneration.com StevenBlank.com/books.html
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this presentation combines two global bestsellers
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So what makes for a successful start-up?
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Start with a brilliant founder like...
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Mike, 34Stanford Alumnus
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he used to be an...
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Experienced Exec
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All his operating experience built up some...
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...outstanding credentials!
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One day Mike has...
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A “killer” product idea!
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A “killer”product idea!he’s really passionate about it
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Mike’s experienced.
He knows how to test his idea using...
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...market research
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The research looks good! Mike moves forward, and writes a fantastic....
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Great!Based on the credentials, research, and plan, Mike has secured the final piece...
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...VC Funding!
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Money in hand, Mike get’s started on
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...building his start-up.
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He makes the headlines of every major...
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... and is invited to give...
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...keynote talks
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Mike and his start-up are
on a roll!
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How likely is his business to succeed?
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Despite the experience, research and plan...
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...Mikeslipped up.
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Let’s help Mike with 5 things he
didn’t know.
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No business plan survives
the first customer
contact.
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Sticking to a planning document works for a known future, not for a start-up context.
Plan’s fail in start-ups.
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It’s the business
model, stupid.
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Hey Mike, your plan was to build a company, but did your plan include a Business Model?
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“A business model describesthe rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value”
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Here are the 9 building blocks of a business model:
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CUSTOMER SEGMENTS
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which customers and users are you serving? which jobs do they really want to get done?
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VALUE PROPOSITIONS
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what are you offering them? what is that getting done for them? do they care?
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CHANNELS
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how does each customer segment want to be reached? through which interaction points?
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CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS
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what relationships are you establishing with each segment? personal? automated? acquisitive? retentive?
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REVENUE STREAMS
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what are customers really willing to pay for? how? are you generating transactional or recurring revenues?
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KEY RESOURCES
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which resources underpin your b.model? which assets are essential?
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KEY ACTIVITIES
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which activities do you need to perform well in your b.model? what is crucial?
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KEY PARTNERS
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which partners and suppliers leverage your model? who do you need to rely on?
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COST STRUCTURE
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what is the resulting cost structure? which key elements drive your costs?
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customer segments
key partners
cost structure
revenue streams
channels
customer relationships
key activities
key resources
value proposition
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“Hmm, interesting so what do I make of
that?”
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use it as a tool to...
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sketch out your business model
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This tool is called theBusiness Model Canvas(download with instructions atwww.businessmodelgeneration.com/downloads)
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Take time to think through
alternativepossibilities.
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the same technology, product, or service can have numerous business models
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try sketching out alternative business models by asking yourself...
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transactional vs. recurring revenues
fixed vs. variable costs
acquisition vs. retention
one customer segment vs. another
capital expenditure vs. partnership
paid vs. free
product vs. service
copyright vs. copyleft
open vs. closed
human intensive vs. system intensive
personal vs. automated
direct sales vs. indirect sales
advertising vs. sales
niche market vs. mass market
scale vs. scope
blue ocean vs. red ocean
disruptive vs. incremental
in-sourcing vs. out-sourcing
tailor-made vs. mass production
distributed vs. centralized
physical vs. virtual
difficult questions
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only make a first choice after prototyping and thinking through several models...
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OK. You’ve got your model,but you’re not done yet...
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Your business model idea is
just a set of hypotheses.
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a business model might look great on paper...
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... but be honest that it’s
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guess guess
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... just a set of hypotheses
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...so you need to get out of the building and...
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test each hypothesis (e.g. with customers)
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this business model testing process is called Customer Development
customer discovery
customer validation
customer creation
company building
pivot
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two different phases...
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search
execution
customer discovery
customer validation
customer creation
company building
pivot
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and it starts with...
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customer discovery
customer validation
customer creation
company building
pivot
... verifying every hypothesis
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test your hypotheses
product
market type
competition
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test your hypotheses
problem
customer
user
payer
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test your hypotheses
channel
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test your hypotheses
problem
customer
user
payerchannel
product
market type
competition
pricing model
validate business model
channel
(customer)
(problem)
demand creation
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to accomplish this you will need a special and agile ...
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customer development team
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A team that ...
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... gets out of the building!
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... to test and adapt your model
problemcustomer
userpayer
channel
productmarket typecompetition
pricing model
validate business model
channel(customer) (problem)
demand creation
agile business model
adaptation
customer development
team
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customer discovery
customer validation
customer creation
company building
you need to adapt the business model until you can prove it works
pivot
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“How do I prove a business model works?”
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One example of “proving” is concluding the ...
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... sales of a “minimum viable feature set”
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This adaptation process is called ...
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the pivot
(repeat * until proven)
customer discovery
customer validation
customer creation
company building
pivot
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so do you have any “factual” proof?
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Congratulations!
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You finished the search process!
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So don’t ever forget ...
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Don’t build your company, until you’ve verified your Business
Model5
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or you’ll risk ...
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Burning your cash while searching for a working business model
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execution is not search
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execution follows search
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Build when you’ve found your model
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only then execute:
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scale your marketing
execution
customer discovery
customer validation
customer creation
company building
pivot
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and build your org structures
execution
customer discovery
customer validation
customer creation
company building
pivot
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Don’t build your company, until you’ve verified your Business Model
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Your business model idea isjust a set of hypotheses. 4
Take time to think through alternative possibilities3It’s the business model, stupid.2
No business plan survives the first customer contact.1
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BusinessModelGeneration.com StevenBlank.com/books.html
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you can read more about business models and the customer development process here:
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BusinessModelGeneration.comAlexOsterwalder.com @business_design
StevenBlank.com/books.htmlSteveBlank.com @sgblank
Good Luck!
Contribution by Alan Smith @thinksmith