Book description
ROAD TEST YOUR IDEA BEFORE YOU LAUNCH YOUR LEAN START-UP
Thinking about starting a new business? Stop! Is there a genuine market for your idea? Do you really want to compete in that industry? Are you the right person to pursue it? No matter how talented you are or how much capital you have, if you’re pursuing a fundamentally flawed opportunity then you’re heading for failure. So before you launch your lean start-up, take your idea for a test drive and make sure it has a fighting chance of working.
Now in its fifth edition, The New Business Road Test is the essential handbook for anyone wanting to launch a start-up. The new and fully updated case studies – Ella's Kitchen, Whole Foods, eBay and more – and ‘seven domains’ framework will help you avoid impending disaster and enhance your chances of achieving your entrepreneurial dreams.
This book will help you answer the live-or-die questions:
· Are the market and industry attractive?
· Does the opportunity offer both customer benefits as well as competitive and economic sustainability?
· Can you deliver the results you seek?
The accompanying app (available on iTunes and Android) makes it easy to assemble all the evidence you need for your road test, wherever you are. www.newbusinessroadtest.com
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Contents
- Why read this book?
- About the author
- Author’s acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements
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PART 1: Road test your new business idea
- 1 Our opportunity: why will or won’t this work?
- 2 Will the fish bite?
- 3 Is this an attractive market?
- 4 Is this an attractive industry?
- 5 Competitive and economic sustainability: how long can we dance?
- 6 What drives your entrepreneurial or investment dream?
- 7 Can you and your team execute?
- 8 Your connections matter: which matter most?
- 9 Develop your opportunity: put the seven domains to work
- 10 What entrepreneurs and investors should do before pressing ‘Start’
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PART 2: A toolkit for your road test
- 11 How to learn what you don’t know you don’t know
- 12 Who needs investors?
- 13 Market analysis worksheet
- 14 Industry analysis checklist
- 15 Do-it-yourself marketing research for your new business road test
- 16 Evidence-based forecasting
- 17 Have you got what it takes?
- 18 Getting help with your road test
- Appendix – Research methodology
- Notes
- Index
- Endorsements
- Imprint
Product information
- Title: The New Business Road Test, 5th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2017
- Publisher(s): FT Publishing International
- ISBN: 9781292208411
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