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Evaluating ideas
How do you know if
a business idea is
good?




             paulshawsmith
                scientific business strategy
0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10
No Chance                                                 Certain Chance
of Success                                                  of Success




Good ideas have a higher chance of success
9/10 strong
                                  BM survive




                                   3/10 weak
                                   BM survive




                                                Source: Cooper (1994)


Statistical models are good at predicting success
1/4 venture capital
                               backed company list




                                            Source: Gompers et al. (2009)


VCs are good at predicting success
Expert entrepreneurs are good at predicting success
How do they
evaluate ideas ?




              paulshawsmith
                 scientific business strategy
Can I do it?




               paulshawsmith
                  scientific business strategy
Begin with the end in mind
Failing to plan is planning to fail
Specific Result
Causal Thinking


                                            Market
                                           Research




                  Knowledge


                                              Market
                   People                      Gap
   Plan



                  Resources




                              paulshawsmith
                                 scientific success strategy
paulshawsmith
   scientific business strategy
27   Entrepreneurs




                     paulshawsmith
                        scientific business strategy
$200    million to   $6            billion




  3 40
   to                start ups




        1    IPO

                            paulshawsmith
                               scientific business strategy
???




Bruce Flohr, the founder of RailTex
AMAR BHIDE



     I'd just go sell it. I don't believe in market research. Somebody
     once told me the only thing you need is a customer. Instead of
     asking all the questions, I'd try and make some sales. I'd learn
     a lot, you know: which people, what were the obstacles, what
       were the questions, which prices work better. Even before I
      started production. So my market research would actually be
                             hands-on actual selling."




Source: Sarasavathy (2007)
                                                      paulshawsmith
                                                         scientific business strategy
AMAR BHIDE
  "Ultimately, the best test of any product is to go to your target
  market and pretend like it's a real business. You'll find out soon
 enough if it is or not. You have to take some risks. You can sit and
  analyze these different markets forever and ever and ever, and
    you'd get all these wonderful answers, and they still may be
  wrong. The problem with the businessman type is they spend a
 lot of time with all their great wisdom and all their spreadsheets
  and all their Harvard Business Review people, and they'd either
 become convinced that there's no market at all or that they have
 the market nailed. And they'd go out there big time, with a lot of
  expensive advertising and upfront costs, because they're gonna
     overwhelm the market, and the business would go under."


Source: Sarasavathy (2007)
                                                     paulshawsmith
                                                        scientific business strategy
Bird-in-the-hand




                   paulshawsmith
                      scientific business strategy
Effectual Thinking
(Imaging a possible new end using a given set of means)


                                                               Outcome
               Opportunities

                                                               Outcome

   Resources
                                                               Outcome



    Knowledge                                                  Outcome




                                                               Outcome
                 People


                                                               Outcome




                                                 paulshawsmith
                                                    scientific success strategy
Effectual Thinking



                                               Meal 1
                 Knowledge of
                   Cooking
                                               Meal 2

   Ingredients
     on Hand
                                               Meal 3



     Equipment
                                               Meal 4
      Available


                  People I                     Meal 5
                   Know

                                               Meal 6




                                paulshawsmith
                                   scientific success strategy
Effectual Thinking



                Course
                Match



    FaceMash



      Partner
      Friends


       Customer
       Students


                          Harvard
                         Connection



                                      paulshawsmith
                                         scientific success strategy
How much money is need to start the business
 & what percentage of the money do you have?



         0   10    20   30   40   50   60   70   80   90   100




     0% of money                                      100% of money




Can you do it?
What knowledge do you need to start your
        business & what percentage of that
              knowledge do you have?

         0   10      20   30   40   50   60   70   80    90   100




   0% of knowledge                                      100% of knowledge




Can you do it?
What physical resources do you need to start
   your business & what percentage of those
        physical resources do you have?

           0   10    20     30   40   50   60   70   80   90    100




 0% of physical resources                            100% of physical resources




Can you do it?
What people and contacts do you need to
 start the business & what percentage of those
         people & contacts do you have?

          0   10    20     30   40   50   60   70   80   90   100




   0% of people/contacts                            100% of people/contacts




Can you do it?
Will I do it?




                paulshawsmith
                   scientific business strategy
“I paulshawsmith
   was pursuing
    my passion.”
    scientific business strategy
“start your business around something
        that is a passion of yours”
“you must be passionate”
Steve Jobs (Video)
How certain are you that you want
              to start this business?



          0   10   20   30   40   50   60   70   80   90    100




         0%                                                 100%
        certain                                            certain




Will you do it?
How certain are you that you can
                start this business?



          0   10   20   30   40   50   60   70   80   90    100




         0%                                                 100%
        certain                                            certain




Will you do it?
How certain are you that you will
                start this business?



          0   10   20   30   40   50   60   70   80   90    100




         0%                                                 100%
        certain                                            certain




Will you do it?
How certain are you that you have the time
            to start this business?



          0   10   20   30   40   50   60   70   80   90    100




         0%                                                 100%
        certain                                            certain




Will you do it?
Will people buy it?




               paulshawsmith
                  scientific business strategy
Start Up Size & Growth




                                               paulshawsmith
                                                  scientific business strategy
Source: Reynolds (1987)
paulshawsmith
   scientific business strategy
paulshawsmith
   scientific business strategy
4 Will pre-order and pay now!



              3 Will purchase once released



              2 Might purchase but…



              1 Will not purchase




Customer interest before launching
4 Purchases and is a raving fan!



              3 Purchases



              2 Interested but doesn’t purchase because…



              1 Not interested and does not purchase




Customer interest after launching
4 Number of level 4 reactions


            3 Number of level 3 reactions


            2 Number of level 2 reactions


            1 Number of level 1 reactions




BM improve when these figures improve
W1    W2    W3    W4    W5    W6    W7    W8


 4. Purchased
       or       0%    0%    5%    7%    10%   15%   20%   25%
    pre-paid

 3. Purchased
     or will    0%    10%   10%   10%   15%   20%   25%   30%
   purchase

   2. Will
  purchase      25%   25%   25%   30%   30%   30%   35%   35%
    but…


    1. Not
                75%   65%   60%   53%   45%   35%   20%   10%
  interested




The aim is to increase the no. of level 3 and 4 reactions
Customer Loyalty?

4 Will definitely purchase again & only from you



3 Will purchase again from you


2 Will purchase again if…


1 Never purchase again
4 Will definitely purchase again & only from you



            3 Will purchase again from you


            2 Will purchase again if…


            1 Never purchase again




BM improve when these figures improve
What percentage of potential customers
      marketed or sold to buy the product?



         0    10   20   30   40   50   60   70   80   90   100




         0%                                                100%




Will people buy it?
What percentage of customers purchase the
               product again?



         0    10   20   30   40   50   60   70   80   90   100




         0%                                                100%




Will people buy it?
Will it make money?




              paulshawsmith
                 scientific business strategy
Sales




What are the expected sales?
Sales
    Less: Costs




What are the expected costs?
Sales
    Less: Costs
    ____________

    Profit

What is the expected profit?
How happy are you with the expected profit
          the business will make?



          0   10       20   30   40   50   60   70   80   90   100




          0%                                                   100%
    Not at all happy                                      Extremely happy




Will it make money?
Will it grow?




                paulshawsmith
                   scientific business strategy
Higher Potential            Lower Potential
Problem             Solve an important problem   Not important to customer

Payback to user          Less than 1 year            More than 3 years

Performance          Significant improvement        Small improvement

Value added             High value added            Limited vale added

Barriers to entry             High                         Low

Uniqueness               Unique solution             Many competitors
Higher Potential   Lower Potential
Customer                   High             Limited
acquisition ability

Customer                    Low               High
acquisition cost

Customer retention         High               Low

Customer lifetime          High               Low
profit
Higher Potential            Lower Potential
Market size                 Large                     Limited

Market growth              Growing                 Declining/mature

Market structure     Fragmented, emerging        Highly concentrated,
                           industry            mature/declining industry

Market capacity         Under capacity          Full or excess capacity

Market share       Market leader 20% or more      Limited 5% or less
attainable
Higher Potential        Lower Potential
Revenue type               Recurring               Once off

Profits                  Strong profits           Weak profits

Predictability        Predictable revenues   Unpredictable revenues

No. revenue streams        Multiple                  Single

Timing                 Collect than spend      Spend than collect
Higher Potential     Lower Potential
Channel access        Accessible          Inaccessible

Control              High control          No. control

Visibility       Visible to prospects   Limited visibility

Reach            Whole target market     Limited reach

Customer match    Good customer fit     Poor customer fit
Higher Potential             Lower Potential
Entrepreneurial            Balanced team          Individual or missing skills
team

Industry knowledge      Excellent track record             Limited

Key people                      A team                   B or C team

Ease to replicate        Difficult to replicate        Easy to replicate

Intellectual property   Competitive advantage         Limited advantage
Higher Potential      Lower Potential
Scalability            Highly scalable         Limited

Ease of replication   Difficult to copy   Can be easily copied

Operations            Highly efficient     Limited efficiency
Higher Potential           Lower Potential

Contact & networks         Well developed                 Limited

Partnerships         Work with partners if need to   Avoids partnerships

Relationship                   Win-win                    Win-lose
Higher Potential        Lower Potential
Capital                Low; fundable     Very high; difficult to fund
requirements

Asset intensity          Low/sales               High/sales

Costs                 Cost advantage         No cost advantage

Capital expenditure   Low/incremental        High requirements
                        requirements
Is it based on fact ?




               paulshawsmith
                  scientific business strategy
What is aBHIDE
   AMAR business plan?




                  WAGs

                         paulshawsmith
                            scientific business strategy
Guess?            Guess?
Guess?              Guess?               Guess?




           Guess?            Guess?




         Guess?                 Guess?
What happens if you try and build
     a business on guesses?




                         paulshawsmith
                            scientific business strategy
Pre-mature Scaling



              paulshawsmith
                 scientific business strategy
AMAR BHIDE
         Skip the fact finding




                  No
Idea                                       Build
                 Facts




                                 paulshawsmith
                                    scientific business strategy
paulshawsmith
   scientific business strategy
paulshawsmith
   scientific business strategy
of high growth internet start ups
                        fail due to premature scaling.


                                                   paulshawsmith
                                                      scientific business strategy
Source: Start Up Genome Report(2011)
Startups that scale properly
                                     grow about




                         times faster than startups that
                                 scale prematurely
                                                     paulshawsmith
                                                        scientific business strategy
Source: Start Up Genome Report(2011)
Have you tested your assumptions in the real world?
7.1 Doable?                                           4.1 How?
                                                        3. Product/            How will you acquire
                         Can you perform the
                                                        Market fit?               customers?
    8.1 Terms?             Key activities?
                                                                                                         1. Customer?
  What terms will the        7.2 Costs?               Will the customers                                    Who is the
                                                      buy the product?
                                                                                  4.2 Costs?
   partners require?                                                                                        customer?
                           Costs to perform                                      Cost to acquire a
                            Key activities?
                                                                                    customer?


    8.2 Costs?                                          Profitable?
                                                                                                            2. Market
  How much will they                                  Will the business           5.1 Terms?                  Size?
      charge?             6.1 Acquirable?                                      What are the channel
                                                       Make money?                                          What is the
                           Can you acquire                                           terms?                 Market size?
                          The key resources?

                            6.2 Costs?                                             5.2 Costs?
                        Cost of key resources?                                  Cost of distribution?



                         9. Costs?                                                       5. Pricing?

            What are your fixed and variable costs?                       How will you charge? How much will you charge?




What percentage of these questions can you answer?
Are failure losses
affordable?




               paulshawsmith
                  scientific business strategy
I’ll start cheap make sure I… cover my cost don’t have to
   take huge risks…. uhm… one thing I’m sure about my
 experience… never take any risk if you can help it… it is
   just the opposite of what most people think about….
                    Entrepreneurs [E5]




                                               paulshawsmith
                                                  scientific business strategy
“When we started the airline 25 years age this year. I went to Boeing. I
           AMAR BHIDE
    remember the telephone call.
    “Hello this is Richard Branson, wonder whether you could sell me a
    second hand 747?”
    “What is the name of your business?”
    “Virgin.”
    “What do you do?”
    “We have a record company and have great bands like the sex pistols the
    rolling Stones.“
    And then there was a long pause, and instead of putting the phone down.
    He said, “We will send a salesman over and as long as your airline goes
    further than your name suggests we will let you have a plane.”

    The key point there is we said to Boeing we don’t know if this is going to
    work. We realise that this is risky, and we want to be able to hand the
    plane back after 12 months if it doesn’t work out. And that is the element
    of protecting the downside and that is the critical thing.

                                                              paulshawsmith
                                                                 scientific business strategy
Source: Wall Street Journal Video, 2009-10-15
Jean-Marc Tostee
AMAR BHIDE



   “Back when I launched eBay on Labour Day 1995, eBay wasn’t
    my business – it was my hobby. I had to build a system that
    was self-sustaining… …because I had a real job to go to every
     morning. I was working as a software engineer from 10 to
     7, and I wanted to have a life on the weekends. So I built a
     system that could keep working – catching complaints and
        capturing feedback – even when Pam and I were out
        mountain-biking, and the only one home was our cat.




Source: Omidyar (2002)
                                                   paulshawsmith
                                                      scientific business strategy
Jean-Marc Tostee
Size




                                         R50 million - ‘01



                               R30 million – ‘98

                       100 employee – ‘97




              ‘92 – Gotcha, Wrangler Agencies
               & Biotribe factory                            Time
 Source: Saravathy (1998)
Size




                                        R50 million
                                   Chinese Imports - ‘01
                                 R6 to R13 to dollar


                               R30 million – ‘98

                       100 employee – ‘97




              ‘92 – Gotcha, Wrangler Agencies
               & Biotribe factory                          Time
 Source: Saravathy (1998)
Having lost my business so suddenly, I was now setting up a
 licensing base and succeeding in spreading my risk across a
number of products, licensees and manufacturers. We have
    the brands, they have the factories. With this licensing
    model, we find the best manufacturers and negotiate a
    win/win partnership with them – I provide the product
ideas and brand knowledge and they produce products they
    are already successful at making, but under our brand.
             Together we have a thriving business.




                                              paulshawsmith
                                                 scientific business strategy
R160 million – ‘09
Size




                                        R50 million
                                   Chinese Imports - ‘01
                                 R6 to R13 to dollar


                               R30 million – ‘98              2 employees – ‘05

                       100 employee – ‘97
                                                                             ’04 – 20 Licenses




              ‘92 – Gotcha, Wrangler Agencies              ‘01 – Licensing model
               & Biotribe factory                                                                Time
 Source: Saravathy (1998)
With the benefit of hindsight, I know now that back in
   2001 the business I had built was hugely exposed to
   external risks. Today, I would not employ that many
 people. I would not make and distribute so many diverse
products from just one facility. It makes far more sense to
 outsource production to manufacturing and distribution
experts who have all the expertise and channels in place. I
  would, and do, take forward cover on any international
forex importing and exporting we do. I keep overheads to
 an absolute minimum and maintain tight control over all
             financial aspects of the business.



                                              paulshawsmith
                                                 scientific business strategy
How affordable are your businesses
                 losses if you fail?



            0    10    20   30   40   50   60   70   80    90    100




            0%                                                     100%
  I cannot afford to lose                                  I can afford to lose
  anything I put into the                                 everything I put into
        business                                               the business




Affordable loss
Rate your business
ideas using the
scorecard




             paulshawsmith
                scientific business strategy

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01.3 Evaluating ideas

  • 2. How do you know if a business idea is good? paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 3. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 No Chance Certain Chance of Success of Success Good ideas have a higher chance of success
  • 4. 9/10 strong BM survive 3/10 weak BM survive Source: Cooper (1994) Statistical models are good at predicting success
  • 5. 1/4 venture capital backed company list Source: Gompers et al. (2009) VCs are good at predicting success
  • 6. Expert entrepreneurs are good at predicting success
  • 7. How do they evaluate ideas ? paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 8. Can I do it? paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 9. Begin with the end in mind
  • 10. Failing to plan is planning to fail
  • 12. Causal Thinking Market Research Knowledge Market People Gap Plan Resources paulshawsmith scientific success strategy
  • 13. paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 14.
  • 15. 27 Entrepreneurs paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 16. $200 million to $6 billion 3 40 to start ups 1 IPO paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 17. ??? Bruce Flohr, the founder of RailTex
  • 18. AMAR BHIDE I'd just go sell it. I don't believe in market research. Somebody once told me the only thing you need is a customer. Instead of asking all the questions, I'd try and make some sales. I'd learn a lot, you know: which people, what were the obstacles, what were the questions, which prices work better. Even before I started production. So my market research would actually be hands-on actual selling." Source: Sarasavathy (2007) paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 19. AMAR BHIDE "Ultimately, the best test of any product is to go to your target market and pretend like it's a real business. You'll find out soon enough if it is or not. You have to take some risks. You can sit and analyze these different markets forever and ever and ever, and you'd get all these wonderful answers, and they still may be wrong. The problem with the businessman type is they spend a lot of time with all their great wisdom and all their spreadsheets and all their Harvard Business Review people, and they'd either become convinced that there's no market at all or that they have the market nailed. And they'd go out there big time, with a lot of expensive advertising and upfront costs, because they're gonna overwhelm the market, and the business would go under." Source: Sarasavathy (2007) paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 20. Bird-in-the-hand paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 21. Effectual Thinking (Imaging a possible new end using a given set of means) Outcome Opportunities Outcome Resources Outcome Knowledge Outcome Outcome People Outcome paulshawsmith scientific success strategy
  • 22. Effectual Thinking Meal 1 Knowledge of Cooking Meal 2 Ingredients on Hand Meal 3 Equipment Meal 4 Available People I Meal 5 Know Meal 6 paulshawsmith scientific success strategy
  • 23.
  • 24. Effectual Thinking Course Match FaceMash Partner Friends Customer Students Harvard Connection paulshawsmith scientific success strategy
  • 25. How much money is need to start the business & what percentage of the money do you have? 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0% of money 100% of money Can you do it?
  • 26. What knowledge do you need to start your business & what percentage of that knowledge do you have? 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0% of knowledge 100% of knowledge Can you do it?
  • 27. What physical resources do you need to start your business & what percentage of those physical resources do you have? 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0% of physical resources 100% of physical resources Can you do it?
  • 28. What people and contacts do you need to start the business & what percentage of those people & contacts do you have? 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0% of people/contacts 100% of people/contacts Can you do it?
  • 29. Will I do it? paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 30. “I paulshawsmith was pursuing my passion.” scientific business strategy
  • 31. “start your business around something that is a passion of yours”
  • 32. “you must be passionate”
  • 34. How certain are you that you want to start this business? 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0% 100% certain certain Will you do it?
  • 35. How certain are you that you can start this business? 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0% 100% certain certain Will you do it?
  • 36. How certain are you that you will start this business? 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0% 100% certain certain Will you do it?
  • 37. How certain are you that you have the time to start this business? 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0% 100% certain certain Will you do it?
  • 38. Will people buy it? paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 39. Start Up Size & Growth paulshawsmith scientific business strategy Source: Reynolds (1987)
  • 40. paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 41. paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 42. 4 Will pre-order and pay now! 3 Will purchase once released 2 Might purchase but… 1 Will not purchase Customer interest before launching
  • 43. 4 Purchases and is a raving fan! 3 Purchases 2 Interested but doesn’t purchase because… 1 Not interested and does not purchase Customer interest after launching
  • 44. 4 Number of level 4 reactions 3 Number of level 3 reactions 2 Number of level 2 reactions 1 Number of level 1 reactions BM improve when these figures improve
  • 45. W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8 4. Purchased or 0% 0% 5% 7% 10% 15% 20% 25% pre-paid 3. Purchased or will 0% 10% 10% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% purchase 2. Will purchase 25% 25% 25% 30% 30% 30% 35% 35% but… 1. Not 75% 65% 60% 53% 45% 35% 20% 10% interested The aim is to increase the no. of level 3 and 4 reactions
  • 46. Customer Loyalty? 4 Will definitely purchase again & only from you 3 Will purchase again from you 2 Will purchase again if… 1 Never purchase again
  • 47. 4 Will definitely purchase again & only from you 3 Will purchase again from you 2 Will purchase again if… 1 Never purchase again BM improve when these figures improve
  • 48. What percentage of potential customers marketed or sold to buy the product? 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0% 100% Will people buy it?
  • 49. What percentage of customers purchase the product again? 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0% 100% Will people buy it?
  • 50. Will it make money? paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 51. Sales What are the expected sales?
  • 52. Sales Less: Costs What are the expected costs?
  • 53. Sales Less: Costs ____________ Profit What is the expected profit?
  • 54. How happy are you with the expected profit the business will make? 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0% 100% Not at all happy Extremely happy Will it make money?
  • 55. Will it grow? paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 56. Higher Potential Lower Potential Problem Solve an important problem Not important to customer Payback to user Less than 1 year More than 3 years Performance Significant improvement Small improvement Value added High value added Limited vale added Barriers to entry High Low Uniqueness Unique solution Many competitors
  • 57. Higher Potential Lower Potential Customer High Limited acquisition ability Customer Low High acquisition cost Customer retention High Low Customer lifetime High Low profit
  • 58. Higher Potential Lower Potential Market size Large Limited Market growth Growing Declining/mature Market structure Fragmented, emerging Highly concentrated, industry mature/declining industry Market capacity Under capacity Full or excess capacity Market share Market leader 20% or more Limited 5% or less attainable
  • 59. Higher Potential Lower Potential Revenue type Recurring Once off Profits Strong profits Weak profits Predictability Predictable revenues Unpredictable revenues No. revenue streams Multiple Single Timing Collect than spend Spend than collect
  • 60. Higher Potential Lower Potential Channel access Accessible Inaccessible Control High control No. control Visibility Visible to prospects Limited visibility Reach Whole target market Limited reach Customer match Good customer fit Poor customer fit
  • 61. Higher Potential Lower Potential Entrepreneurial Balanced team Individual or missing skills team Industry knowledge Excellent track record Limited Key people A team B or C team Ease to replicate Difficult to replicate Easy to replicate Intellectual property Competitive advantage Limited advantage
  • 62. Higher Potential Lower Potential Scalability Highly scalable Limited Ease of replication Difficult to copy Can be easily copied Operations Highly efficient Limited efficiency
  • 63. Higher Potential Lower Potential Contact & networks Well developed Limited Partnerships Work with partners if need to Avoids partnerships Relationship Win-win Win-lose
  • 64. Higher Potential Lower Potential Capital Low; fundable Very high; difficult to fund requirements Asset intensity Low/sales High/sales Costs Cost advantage No cost advantage Capital expenditure Low/incremental High requirements requirements
  • 65. Is it based on fact ? paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 66. What is aBHIDE AMAR business plan? WAGs paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 67. Guess? Guess? Guess? Guess? Guess? Guess? Guess? Guess? Guess?
  • 68. What happens if you try and build a business on guesses? paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 69. Pre-mature Scaling paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 70. AMAR BHIDE Skip the fact finding No Idea Build Facts paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 71. paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 72. paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 73. of high growth internet start ups fail due to premature scaling. paulshawsmith scientific business strategy Source: Start Up Genome Report(2011)
  • 74. Startups that scale properly grow about times faster than startups that scale prematurely paulshawsmith scientific business strategy Source: Start Up Genome Report(2011)
  • 75. Have you tested your assumptions in the real world?
  • 76. 7.1 Doable? 4.1 How? 3. Product/ How will you acquire Can you perform the Market fit? customers? 8.1 Terms? Key activities? 1. Customer? What terms will the 7.2 Costs? Will the customers Who is the buy the product? 4.2 Costs? partners require? customer? Costs to perform Cost to acquire a Key activities? customer? 8.2 Costs? Profitable? 2. Market How much will they Will the business 5.1 Terms? Size? charge? 6.1 Acquirable? What are the channel Make money? What is the Can you acquire terms? Market size? The key resources? 6.2 Costs? 5.2 Costs? Cost of key resources? Cost of distribution? 9. Costs? 5. Pricing? What are your fixed and variable costs? How will you charge? How much will you charge? What percentage of these questions can you answer?
  • 77. Are failure losses affordable? paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 78. I’ll start cheap make sure I… cover my cost don’t have to take huge risks…. uhm… one thing I’m sure about my experience… never take any risk if you can help it… it is just the opposite of what most people think about…. Entrepreneurs [E5] paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 79.
  • 80. “When we started the airline 25 years age this year. I went to Boeing. I AMAR BHIDE remember the telephone call. “Hello this is Richard Branson, wonder whether you could sell me a second hand 747?” “What is the name of your business?” “Virgin.” “What do you do?” “We have a record company and have great bands like the sex pistols the rolling Stones.“ And then there was a long pause, and instead of putting the phone down. He said, “We will send a salesman over and as long as your airline goes further than your name suggests we will let you have a plane.” The key point there is we said to Boeing we don’t know if this is going to work. We realise that this is risky, and we want to be able to hand the plane back after 12 months if it doesn’t work out. And that is the element of protecting the downside and that is the critical thing. paulshawsmith scientific business strategy Source: Wall Street Journal Video, 2009-10-15
  • 82. AMAR BHIDE “Back when I launched eBay on Labour Day 1995, eBay wasn’t my business – it was my hobby. I had to build a system that was self-sustaining… …because I had a real job to go to every morning. I was working as a software engineer from 10 to 7, and I wanted to have a life on the weekends. So I built a system that could keep working – catching complaints and capturing feedback – even when Pam and I were out mountain-biking, and the only one home was our cat. Source: Omidyar (2002) paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 84. Size R50 million - ‘01 R30 million – ‘98 100 employee – ‘97 ‘92 – Gotcha, Wrangler Agencies & Biotribe factory Time Source: Saravathy (1998)
  • 85.
  • 86.
  • 87. Size R50 million Chinese Imports - ‘01 R6 to R13 to dollar R30 million – ‘98 100 employee – ‘97 ‘92 – Gotcha, Wrangler Agencies & Biotribe factory Time Source: Saravathy (1998)
  • 88. Having lost my business so suddenly, I was now setting up a licensing base and succeeding in spreading my risk across a number of products, licensees and manufacturers. We have the brands, they have the factories. With this licensing model, we find the best manufacturers and negotiate a win/win partnership with them – I provide the product ideas and brand knowledge and they produce products they are already successful at making, but under our brand. Together we have a thriving business. paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 89. R160 million – ‘09 Size R50 million Chinese Imports - ‘01 R6 to R13 to dollar R30 million – ‘98 2 employees – ‘05 100 employee – ‘97 ’04 – 20 Licenses ‘92 – Gotcha, Wrangler Agencies ‘01 – Licensing model & Biotribe factory Time Source: Saravathy (1998)
  • 90. With the benefit of hindsight, I know now that back in 2001 the business I had built was hugely exposed to external risks. Today, I would not employ that many people. I would not make and distribute so many diverse products from just one facility. It makes far more sense to outsource production to manufacturing and distribution experts who have all the expertise and channels in place. I would, and do, take forward cover on any international forex importing and exporting we do. I keep overheads to an absolute minimum and maintain tight control over all financial aspects of the business. paulshawsmith scientific business strategy
  • 91. How affordable are your businesses losses if you fail? 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0% 100% I cannot afford to lose I can afford to lose anything I put into the everything I put into business the business Affordable loss
  • 92. Rate your business ideas using the scorecard paulshawsmith scientific business strategy

Hinweis der Redaktion

  1. The results showed the vast majority, 81%, gave themselves a 7 out of 10 chance of success or greater.
  2. For example, read Steven Covey’s – bestseller the 7 habits of highly effective people. One of the lessons I picked up from there was “begin with the end in mind”.
  3. I then read and listened to many of Brain Tracy’s
  4. What they suggest you want to achieve great things in business you should begin with a vision. You than go and find the people, resources, and knowledge needed to turn that vision into a reality.
  5. If we used an example of a chef…
  6. I am going to convince you that epically in the early stages of starting a business these ideas are wrong. Yes, new research on entrepreneurship shows that these guys have gotten it wrong. But before I show you the research for those of you who don’t know lets introduce a little bit about these concepts in detail and how they think.
  7. Started with R300,000 and turned it into R2 billion. Bruce Flohr, founder of RailTex.
  8. The results showed the vast majority, 81%, gave themselves a 7 out of 10 chance of success or greater.
  9. The results showed the vast majority, 81%, gave themselves a 7 out of 10 chance of success or greater.
  10. The results showed the vast majority, 81%, gave themselves a 7 out of 10 chance of success or greater.
  11. The results showed the vast majority, 81%, gave themselves a 7 out of 10 chance of success or greater.
  12. “I was pursuing my passion.” – PierrieOmyar
  13. And as a result most successful entrepreneurs will probably recommend that you let passion be your guiding force, like Richard Branson says “start your business around something that is a passion of yours”
  14. I then read and listened to many of Brain Tracy’s
  15. “I was pursuing my passion.” – PierrieOmyar
  16. The results showed the vast majority, 81%, gave themselves a 7 out of 10 chance of success or greater.
  17. The results showed the vast majority, 81%, gave themselves a 7 out of 10 chance of success or greater.
  18. The results showed the vast majority, 81%, gave themselves a 7 out of 10 chance of success or greater.
  19. The results showed the vast majority, 81%, gave themselves a 7 out of 10 chance of success or greater.
  20. Take for example this large scale study done by Reynolds (1987) they showed that business which started with large sales in the first year were far more likely to grow then business which didn’t.
  21. Mark Zuckerberg when he started facebook had spent month building the site, and before building the site he had built similar site called facemash.com. Were he hacked university network downloaded all the girls photo’s and created a site that would bring up two photos that would allow user to choose what was prettier and then create a list of hottest girls downwards. As you can imagine the feminist at Harvard did not take kindly and he was almost expelled. But the moral is that he spent a number of months preparing.
  22. I then read and listened to many of Brain Tracy’s
  23. I then read and listened to many of Brain Tracy’s
  24. I then read and listened to many of Brain Tracy’s
  25. I then read and listened to many of Brain Tracy’s
  26. I then read and listened to many of Brain Tracy’s
  27. I then read and listened to many of Brain Tracy’s
  28. The results showed the vast majority, 81%, gave themselves a 7 out of 10 chance of success or greater.
  29. The results showed the vast majority, 81%, gave themselves a 7 out of 10 chance of success or greater.
  30. The results showed the vast majority, 81%, gave themselves a 7 out of 10 chance of success or greater.
  31. The results showed the vast majority, 81%, gave themselves a 7 out of 10 chance of success or greater.
  32. The results showed the vast majority, 81%, gave themselves a 7 out of 10 chance of success or greater.
  33. The results showed the vast majority, 81%, gave themselves a 7 out of 10 chance of success or greater.
  34. Exactly how to make intelligent guess or create a workable business model.
  35. Exactly how to make intelligent guess or create a workable business model.
  36. Exactly how to make intelligent guess or create a workable business model.
  37. Exactly how to make intelligent guess or create a workable business model.
  38. Exactly how to make intelligent guess or create a workable business model.
  39. Exactly how to make intelligent guess or create a workable business model.
  40. Exactly how to make intelligent guess or create a workable business model.
  41. Exactly how to make intelligent guess or create a workable business model.
  42. Exactly how to make intelligent guess or create a workable business model.
  43. What is pre-mature scaling. No it is not scaling the fish before it’s dead, or getting on the bathroom scale before it is ready for you.
  44. What is pre-mature scaling. No it is not scaling the fish before it’s dead, or getting on the bathroom scale before it is ready for you.
  45. It is when you start growing a business before you have found product-market fit.
  46. One of the best examples of pre-mature scaling was webvan.
  47. A recent study done last year by a group of researchers in silicon valley 3,200 internet start ups found that a full 74% of internet start ups failed because they tried to grow the business. Before they had found product market fit.
  48. They also found that business that found product-market fit grow at about 20 times faster than startups that scale to early. The bottom line is you don’t want to start making moves on that girl until you know she is very interested and will be willing to stick around.
  49. Exactly how to make intelligent guess or create a workable business model.
  50. There is the big idea that very successful entrepreneurs are wild crazy risk takers. In fact,
  51. There is the big idea that very successful entrepreneurs are wild crazy risk takers. In fact,
  52. There is the big idea that very successful entrepreneurs are wild crazy risk takers. In fact,
  53. The results showed the vast majority, 81%, gave themselves a 7 out of 10 chance of success or greater.