Their story is now world famous. More than half of the users came back to the site every single day. In other words, Facebook also had validated its growth hypothesis. These two hypotheses represent two of the most important leap-of-faith questions any new startup faces. Facebook was di erent, because it employed a di erent engine of growth. It paid nothing for customer acquisition, and its high engagement meant that it was accumulating massive amounts of customer attention every day.
There was never any question that attention would be valuable to advertisers; the only question was how much they would pay. Many entrepreneurs are attempting to build the next Facebook, yet when they try to apply the lessons of Facebook and other famous startup success stories, they quickly get confused.
Is the lesson of Facebook that startups should not charge customers money in the early days? Or is it that startups should never spend money on marketing? These questions cannot be answered in the abstract; there are an almost infinite number of counterexamples for any technique.
Instead, as we saw in Part One, startups need to conduct experiments that help determine what techniques will work in their unique circumstances. For startups, the role of strategy is to help figure out the right questions to ask. What traditional business strategy excels at is helping managers identify clearly what assumptions are being made in a particular business. The rst challenge for an entrepreneur is to build an organization that can test these assumptions systematically.
Many assumptions in a typical business plan are unexceptional. These are well-established facts drawn from past industry experience or straightforward deductions. Hidden among these mundane details are a handful of assumptions that require more courage to state—in the present tense—with a straight face: we assume that customers have a signi cant desire to use a product like ours, or we assume that supermarkets will carry our product.
Acting as if these assumptions are true is a classic entrepreneur superpower. They are called leaps of faith precisely because the success of the entire venture rests on them. If they are true, tremendous opportunity awaits. If they are false, the startup risks total failure. Most leaps of faith take the form of an argument by analogy. We have a new technology X2 that will enable us to win market Y2 because we too have attribute Z. The problem with analogies like this is that they obscure the true leap of faith.
That is their goal: to make the business seem less risky. They are used to persuade investors, employees, or partners to sign on. Most entrepreneurs would cringe to see their leap of faith written this way: Large numbers of people already wanted access to the World Wide Web. They knew what it was, they could a ord it, but they could not get access to it because the time it took to load images was too long.
When progressive image loading was introduced, it allowed people to get onto the World Wide Web and tell their friends about it. Thus, company X won market Y.
Similarly, there is already a large number of potential customers who want access to our product right now. They know they want it, they can a ord it, but they cannot access it because the rendering is too slow. When we debut our product with progressive rendering technology, they will ock to our software and tell their friends, and we will win market Y2. There are several things to notice in this revised statement.
Is it really true that progressive image loading caused the adoption of the World Wide Web, or was this just one factor among many? More important, is it really true that there are large numbers of potential customers out there who want our solution right now? In fact, that approach can help you discover assumptions that are not really leaps of faith. He explains the analog-antilog concept by using the iPod as an example. We think of that as a nonsense question today, but it is fundamental.
When Sony asked the question, they did not have the answer. Jobs then had to face the fact that although people were willing to download music, they were not willing to pay for it. Those are leaps of faith that I, as an entrepreneur, am taking if I go through with this business venture.
They are going to make or break my business. In the iPod business, one of those leaps of faith was that people would pay for music. However, for every successful entrepreneur who was in the right place in the right time, there are many more who were there, too, in that right place at the right time but still managed to fail.
Henry Ford was joined by nearly ve hundred other entrepreneurs in the early twentieth century. Yet the vast majority managed to make no money at all. What di erentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability, and the tools to discover which parts of their plans were working brilliantly and which were misguided, and adapt their strategies accordingly.
Value and Growth As we saw in the Facebook story, two leaps of faith stand above all others: the value creation hypothesis and the growth hypothesis. The rst step in understanding a new product or service is to gure out if it is fundamentally value-creating or value-destroying. I use the language of economics in referring to value rather than pro t, because entrepreneurs include people who start not-for-pro t social ventures, those in public sector startups, and internal change agents who do not judge their success by pro t alone.
Even more confusing, there are many organizations that are wildly profitable in the short term but ultimately value-destroying, such as the organizers of Ponzi schemes, and fraudulent or misguided companies e.
A similar thing is true for growth. There are many value-destroying kinds of growth that should be avoided. An example would be a business that grows through continuous fund-raising from investors and lots of paid advertising but does not develop a value-creating product. Such businesses are engaged in what I call success theater, using the appearance of growth to make it seem that they are successful. One of the goals of innovation accounting, which is discussed in depth in Chapter 7, is to help di erentiate these false startups from true innovators.
Consider companies such as Amazon. Like its traditional counterpart, innovation accounting requires that a startup have and maintain a quantitative nancial model that can be used to evaluate progress rigorously. At Toyota, this goes by the Japanese term genchi gembutsu, which is one of the most important phrases in the lean manufacturing vocabulary. You cannot be sure you really understand any part of any business problem unless you go and see for yourself rsthand.
It is unacceptable to take anything for granted or to rely on the reports of others. At Toyota, the manager responsible for the design and development of a new model is called the chief engineer, a cross-functional leader who oversees the entire process from concept to production. To gure out how to improve the minivan, he proposed an audacious entrepreneurial undertaking: a road trip spanning all fty U.
In all, he logged more than 53, miles of driving. In small towns and large cities, Yokoya would rent a current-model Sienna, driving it in addition to talking to and observing real customers. From those rsthand observations, Yokoya was able to start testing his critical assumptions about what North American consumers wanted in a minivan.
It is common to think of selling to consumers as easier than selling to enterprises, because customers lack the complexity of multiple departments and di erent people playing di erent roles in the purchasing process. If I learned anything in my travels, it was the new Sienna would need kid appeal.
No matter how many intermediaries lie between a company and its customers, at the end of the day, customers are breathing, thinking, buying individuals. Their behavior is measurable and changeable. Even when one is selling to large institutions, as in a business-to-business model, it helps to remember that those businesses are made up of individuals. All successful sales models depend on breaking down the monolithic view of organizations into the disparate people that make them up.
The rst step in this process is to con rm that your leap-of-faith questions are based in reality, that the customer has a signi cant problem worth solving. Instead, he picked up two phone books: one for Palo Alto, California, where he was living at the time, and the other for Winnetka, Illinois. Calling people at random, he inquired if he could ask them a few questions about the way they managed their nances. It turned out that they did, and this early validation gave Cook the con rmation he needed to get started on a solution.
Those early conversations were with mainstream customers, not early adopters. Still, the conversations yielded a fundamental insight: if Intuit could nd a way to solve this problem, there could be a large mainstream audience on which it could build a significant business. Design and the Customer Archetype The goal of such early contact with customers is not to gain definitive answers. Instead, it is to clarify at a basic, coarse level that we understand our potential customer and what problems they have.
With that understanding, we can craft a customer archetype, a brief document that seeks to humanize the proposed target customer. This archetype is an essential guide for product development and ensures that the daily prioritization decisions that every product team must make are aligned with the customer to whom the company aims to appeal. There are many techniques for building an accurate customer archetype that have been developed over long years of practice in the design community.
Traditional approaches such as interaction design or design thinking are enormously helpful. Yet because of the way design agencies traditionally have been compensated, all this work culminates in a monolithic deliverable to the client.
For startups, this is an unworkable model. No amount of design can anticipate the many complexities of bringing a product to life in the real world. In fact, a new breed of designers is developing brand-new techniques under the banner of Lean User Experience Lean UX. They recognize that the customer archetype is a hypothesis, not a fact. The customer pro le should be considered provisional until the strategy has shown via validated learning that we can serve this type of customer in a sustainable way.
Other entrepreneurs can fall victim to analysis paralysis, endlessly re ning their plans. In this case, talking to customers, reading research reports, and whiteboard strategizing are all equally unhelpful. Unfortunately, most of these errors cannot be detected at the whiteboard because they depend on the subtle interactions between products and customers.
If too much analysis is dangerous but none can lead to failure, how do entrepreneurs know when to stop analyzing and start building? The answer is a concept called the minimum viable product, the subject of Chapter 6. Although they still had grand ambitions, they were determined to keep the new product simple.
They built a minimum viable product. Does this sound like a billion-dollar company to you? Mason tells the story: We took a WordPress Blog and we skinned it to say Groupon and then every day we would do a new post.
It was totally ghetto. We would sell T-shirts on the rst version of Groupon. If you want a different color or size, e-mail that to us. It was just so cobbled together. It was enough to prove the concept and show that it was something that people really liked. The actual coupon generation that we were doing was all FileMaker. We would run a script that would e-mail the coupon PDF to people.
Really until July of the rst year it was just a scrambling to grab the tiger by the tail. It was trying to catch up and reasonably piece together a product. It is revolutionizing the way local businesses nd new customers, o ering special deals to consumers in more than cities worldwide. Contrary to traditional product development, which usually involves a long, thoughtful incubation period and strives for product perfection, the goal of the MVP is to begin the process of learning, not end it.
Unlike a prototype or concept test, an MVP is designed not just to answer product design or technical questions. Its goal is to test fundamental business hypotheses.
First of all, our product was still buggy and low- quality. The good news was that we were on a hockey-stick-shaped growth curve. Are those numbers in thousands?
The gross numbers were small because we were selling the product to visionary early customers called early adopters. Before new products can be sold successfully to the mass market, they have to be sold to early adopters. These people are a special breed of customer. Early adopters use their imagination to ll in what a product is missing.
They prefer that state of a airs, because what they care about above all is being the rst to use or adopt a new product or technology. As a result, additional features or polish beyond what early adopters demand is a form of wasted resources and time. This is a hard truth for many entrepreneurs to accept. That world-changing product is polished, slick, and ready for prime time. It wins awards at trade shows and, most of all, is something you can proudly show Mom and Dad.
An early, buggy, incomplete product feels like an unacceptable compromise. How many of us were raised with the expectation that we would put our best work forward? Deciding exactly how complex an MVP needs to be cannot be done formulaically. It requires judgment. Luckily, this judgment is not di cult to develop: most entrepreneurs and product development people dramatically overestimate how many features are needed in an MVP.
When in doubt, simplify. For example, consider a service sold with a one-month free trial. Before a customer can use the service, he or she has to sign up for the trial.
One obvious assumption, then, of the business model is that customers will sign up for a free trial once they have a certain amount of information about the service. A critical question to consider is whether customers will in fact sign up for the free trial given a certain number of promised features the value hypothesis. If you think about it, this is a leap-of-faith question. Most entrepreneurs approach a question like this by building the product and then checking to see how customers react to it.
I consider this to be exactly backward because it can lead to a lot of waste. Even if they do sign up, there are many other opportunities for waste. For example, how many features do we really need to include to appeal to early adopters? Every extra feature is a form of waste, and if we delay the test for these extra features, it comes with a tremendous potential cost in terms of learning and cycle time.
The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time. Install its application, and a Dropbox folder appears on your computer desktop.
Anything you drag into that folder is uploaded automatically to the Dropbox service and then instantly replicated across all your computers and devices. The founding team was made up of engineers, as the product demanded signi cant technical expertise to build. It required, for example, integration with a variety of computer platforms and operating systems: Windows, Macintosh, iPhone, Android, and so on. Each of these implementations happens at a deep level of the system and requires specialized know-how to make the user experience exceptional.
These are not the kind of people one would think of as marketing geniuses. In fact, none of them had ever worked in a marketing job. They had prominent venture capital backers and could have been expected to apply the standard engineering thinking to building the business: build it and they will come. But Dropbox did something different. In parallel with their product development e orts, the founders wanted feedback from customers about what really mattered to them.
In particular, Dropbox needed to test its leap-of-faith question: if we can provide a superior customer experience, will people give our product a try? This is not the kind of entrepreneurial question you can ask or expect an answer to in a focus group.
Houston learned this the hard way when he tried to raise venture capital. The challenge was that it was impossible to demonstrate the working software in a prototype form.
The product required that they overcome signi cant technical hurdles; it also had an online service component that required high reliability and availability. To avoid the risk of waking up after years of development with a product nobody wanted, Drew did something unexpectedly easy: he made a video.
The video is banal, a simple three-minute demonstration of the technology as it is meant to work, but it was targeted at a community of technology early adopters. Our beta waiting list went from 5, people to 75, people literally overnight. It totally blew us away. Food on the Table creates weekly meal plans and grocery lists that are based on food you and your family enjoy, then hooks into your local grocery stores to find the best deals on the ingredients. After you sign up for the site, you walk through a little setup in which you identify your main grocery store and check o the foods your family likes.
Later, you can pick another nearby store if you want to compare prices. At this point, the site searches through recipes that match your needs, prices out the cost of the meal for you, and lets you print out your shopping list.
Behind the scenes, a team of professional chefs devise recipes that take advantage of items that are on sale at local grocery stores around the country. Those groceries have to be matched to appropriate recipes and then appropriately customized, tagged, and sorted.
If a recipe calls for broccoli rabe, is that the same ingredient as the broccoli on sale at the local market? After reading that description, you might be surprised to learn that Food on the Table FotT began life with a single customer. Instead of supporting thousands of grocery stores around the country as it does today, FotT supported just one. How did the company choose which store to support?
Similarly, they began life with no recipes whatsoever—until their rst customer was ready to begin her meal planning. In fact, the company served its rst customer without building any software, without signing any business development partnerships, and without hiring any chefs.
Part of their mission was the typical observation of customers that is a part of design thinking and other ideation techniques. However, Manuel and his team were also on the hunt for something else: their rst customer. As they met potential customers in those settings, they would interview them the way any good market researcher would, but at the end of each interview they would attempt to make a sale.
Most times they were rejected. But eventually someone did. That one early adopter got the concierge treatment. Instead of interacting with the FotT product via impersonal software, she got a personal visit each week from the CEO of the company. He and the VP of product would review what was on sale at her preferred grocery store and carefully select recipes on the basis of her preferences, going so far as to learn her favorite recipes for items she regularly cooked for her family.
Each week they would hand her—in person—a prepared packet containing a shopping list and relevant recipes, solicit her feedback, and make changes as necessary.
Talk about ine cient! Measured according to traditional criteria, this is a terrible system, entirely nonscalable and a complete waste of time. Instead of marketing themselves to millions, they sold themselves to one.
They had no product, no meaningful revenue, no databases of recipes, not even a lasting organization. However, viewed through the lens of the Lean Startup, they were making monumental progress.
Each week they were learning more and more about what was required to make their product a success. After a few weeks they were ready for another customer. Each customer they brought on made it easier to get the next one, because FotT could focus on the same grocery store, getting to know its products and the kinds of people who shopped there well. These, of course, are not sure bets for curing stress but they can help. The chapter then discusses the entrepreneurial ego and its negative effects.
This is brought about by a false sense of security and invincibility because the business is going well. The traits used to help diagnose this problem are the need for control, sense of distrust, the desire for success, and external optimism. The chapter continues with a full-featured exploration of the ethical side of entrepreneurship. Ethics is a set of principles prescribing a behavioral code that explains right and wrong; it also may outline moral duty and obligations.
Because it is so difficult to define the term, it is helpful to look at ethics more as a process than as a static code. Entrepreneurs face many ethical decisions, especially during the early stages of their new ventures. Decisions may be legal without being ethical, and vice versa.
When making decisions that border on the unethical, entrepreneurs commonly rationalize their choices. Within this framework are four distinct types of managerial roles: nonrole, role failure, role distortion, and role assertion. Some of them may be overlooked, and some may be sidestepped because the economic cost is too high. Despite the ever-present lack of clarity and direction in ethics, however, ethics will continue to be a major issue for entrepreneurs during the new century.
To establish ethical strategies, some corporations create codes of conduct. A code of conduct is a statement of ethical practices or guidelines to which an enterprise adheres. Codes are becoming more prevalent in organizations today, and they are proving to be more meaningful in their implementation. This chapter concludes with a model of entrepreneurial motivation, which depicts the important factors of expectation and outcome. The Entrepreneurial Mind-Set Every person has the potential and free choice to pursue a career as an entrepreneur.
What motivates people to make this choice is not fully understood. Entrepreneurial Cognition Cognition is used to refer to the mental functions, mental processes thoughts , and mental states of intelligent humans. Entrepreneurial cognition is about understanding how entrepreneurs use simplifying mental models to piece together previously unconnected information that helps them to identify and invent new products or services, and to assemble the necessary resources to start and grow businesses.
Metacognitive Perspective Metacognitive model of the entrepreneurial mind-set integrates the combined effects of entrepreneurial motivation and context, toward the development of metacognitive strategies applied to information processing within an entrepreneurial environment.
Starting a new business requires more than just an idea; it requires a special person, an entrepreneur, who combines sound judgment and planning with risk taking to ensure the success of his or her own business. It can also compensate for personal shortcomings. Simple problems bore them, unsolvable ones do not warrant their time. They believe that their accomplishments and setbacks are within their own control and influence and that they can affect the outcome of their actions.
When they decide to participate in a venture, they do so in a very calculated, carefully thought out manner. In many cases this vision develops over time as the individual begins to learn what the firm is and what it can become. Most successful entrepreneurs have highly qualified, well-motivated teams that help handle the growth and development of the venture. Dealing with Failure Entrepreneurs use failure as a learning experience. They have a tolerance for failure. The most effective entrepreneurs are realistic enough to expect difficulties and failures.
In adverse and difficult times, they will continue to look for opportunity. The Grief Recovery Process Grief is a negative emotional response to the loss of something important triggering behavioral, psychological, and physiological symptoms. The emotions generated by failure i. However, avoiding negative emotions is unlikely to be successful in the long-run Research indicates that entrepreneurs may recover more quickly from a failure if they oscillates between a loss and a restoration orientation.
The Entrepreneurial Experience The prevalent view of entrepreneurship in the literature is that entrepreneurs create ventures. Its narrow framing, however, neglects the complete process of entrepreneurship. The creation of sustainable enterprises involves three parallel, interactive phenomena: emergence of the opportunity, emergence of the venture, and emergence of the entrepreneur.
None are predetermined or fixed—they define and are defined by one another. The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship Certain negative factors that may envelop entrepreneurs and dominate their behavior.
Although each of these factors has a positive aspect, it is important for entrepreneurs to understand their potential destructive side as well. A typology of entrepreneurial styles helps describe the risk-taking activity of entrepreneurs. In this model, financial risk is measured against the level of profit motive the desire for monetary gain or return from the venture. Stress and the Entrepreneur To achieve their goals, entrepreneurs are willing to tolerate the effects of stress: back problems, indigestion, insomnia, or headaches.
Lacking the depth of resources, entrepreneurs must bear the cost of their mistakes while playing a multitude of roles, such as salesperson, recruiter, spokesperson, and negotiator.
Simultaneous demands can lead to role overload. Entrepreneurs often work alone or with a small number of employees and therefore lack the support from colleagues. A basic personality structure, common to entrepreneurs and referred to as type A personality structure , describes people who are impatient, demanding, and overstrung.
Loneliness—Entrepreneurs are isolated from persons in whom they can confide. They tend not to participate in social activities unless there is some business benefit. Immersion in Business—Most entrepreneurs are married to their business. They work long hours, leaving them with little or no time for civic recreation. People Problems—Most entrepreneurs experience frustration, disappointment, and aggravation in their experience with people. However, many entrepreneurs are never satisfied with their work no matter how well it is done.
Networking—One way to relieve the loneliness of running a business is to share experiences by networking with other business owners. Getting Away from It All—The best antidote could be a well-planned vacation. Communicating with Employees—Entrepreneurs are in close contact with employees and can readily assess the concerns of their staff. Finding Satisfaction Outside the Company—Entrepreneurs need to get away from the business occasionally and become more passionate about life itself; they need to gain some new perspectives.
Delegating—Entrepreneurs find delegation difficult because they think they have to be at the business all the time and be involved in all aspects of the operation. Your company changes over time—so should your business model.
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