Does your business idea rock or suck? You need a way to find out .. fast! It's such a waste of time to work on a business idea for months only to learn that nobody gives a shit.
After 10 years in the startup game, I wish I could have the time back that I spend on ideas that I should have let go ... way earlier. There is no such thing as a guarantee for success, no matter how much you validate, but it made a huge difference in my success rate in the long term.
The resulting structured approach to validating business ideas is the topic of this meetup. We build a couple of landing pages per week for 2 years and build 6 apps as a result. We are going to share how we:
1. Come up with new ideas
2. Build simple landing pages
3. Send targeted traffic there
4. Collect emails from interested users
5. Learn from customer development surveys
6. Decide which ideas to pursue and which to kill
24. PROBLEM INTERVIEW
• DONE IF WE
• have a must-have problem
• can describe how customers solve it today
• can identify the demographics of early
adopters
25.
26. SOLUTION INTERVIEW
• GOALS
• Solution: How to solve the problem (MVP)?
• Revenue: What is the pricing model?
• Customers: Who has the pain (Early Adopters)?
28. SOLUTION INTERVIEW
• DONE IF WE
• can define minimum features to solve problem
• have a price customers are willing to pay
• can identify the demographics of early
adopters
39. Level
4
Landingpage Adwords / Facebook Product Development
Full Product Website Ad Optimization #3 MVP Development
3rd Customer Survey Active Facebook Fanpage User Testing
Conversion Tracking Cost per Acquisition Analysis Demand based Roadmap
Onpage & Offpage SEO €5000 Idea Evaluation
48. • NOT EVERYTHING IS TESTABLE
• DILEMMA “FOCUS OR MOVE ON”
• ZERO TO ONE PROBABLY WONT WORK
• TEAM COMMITMENT IS LOW
LIMITATIONS
49. • VALIDATE BUSINESSES YOU WANT
• STICK WITH ONE AUDIENCE
• YOU NOTICE GOOD IDEAS EARLY
• YOU CAN DO THIS FOR ONE IDEA
LEARNINGS
50. • 1 BUSINESS / MARKETING
• 1 PRODUCT / DESIGN
• 2 DEVELOPERS
• MINIMIZE BURN RATE
TEAM SETUP
51. • YES
• SIMPLER FUNDING
• LEARNING EXPERIENCE
• PASSION FOR ONE
AUDIENCE
• NO
• NOT WITH APPS
• B2B PREFERENCE
• NOT WITH RANDOM
PRODUCT IDEAS
WOULD WE DO IT AGAIN?