Identify a core problem. Bet against the consensus and be right. Identify something that is a good idea, but sounds like a bad idea. Acquire product-market fit.
The possible stage of the organization:
Varies with stage:
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[...] this is the one thing we have learned best predicts the success of founders in Y Combinator, is that every time we talk to a team, they've gotten new things done. That's the best predictor we have that the company will go on to be succesful."
- Sam Altman
Andrew Wilkinson talks about the advantages of belonging to a founders forum in this video.
From 31:48 - 34:21
Segments and buyer personas (profiles).
"It's better to make a product 100 people LOVE, than a product 1 million people just like."
From 11:00 - 12:51
From 20:30 - 23:05
Check out how to manage hypothesis in the Wecomplish platform.
Some people are more likely to buy from you than others. It is your responsibility to identify the criteria which make people more likely to buy from you, so that you can target and communicate with those people effectively.
Check out how to use the concept of Profiles and Propositions to better understand what your target market cares about, and the concept of Alternatives to better understand how they are currently solving their problems.
Read more about Alternatives.
Be wary of an inability to identify alternatives to your solution. If people aren't using something else to solve the problem that your solution is designed to solve, it may be an indication that people don't sufficiently care about the problem to invest in having it solved.
Before we can sell somebody a product, we first need to understand how it will fit into their lives.
If your product has not yet launched, interview someone who bought a competitor's product, used a workaround, or asked for “alternatives to” on Twitter. In other words, find someone who has recently invested time and money to make progress on the thing you help people do.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/exitstrategy.asp
A strategy for closing down the business if it fails.
A strategy for exiting the business if it succeeds.
Success is the last thing that should catch you off guard. Even though success is by no means a given, assume that you will be successful and plan accordingly.
This does not mean doing things that scale prematurely, but rather mapping out a path to success in order to better understand the road ahead and maintain accountability.
Startup
Recruitment Scaling up Hiring
Startup
Organizational development Startup Organizational resilience Delegation
Communication
Momentum
Messaging
Outreach Messaging Awareness
Organizational development Organizational health Leadership support and enablement Leadership development Role clarity Delegation Organizational structure Organizational clarity
Målgruppeadferd
Networking and partnerships
Communication Improvement Alignment and friction prevention
Management Startup Leadership support and enablement Leadership development
Organisasjonshelse Lederstøtte
Organizational health Organizational clarity Organizational resilience Management
Insight management Organizational health
Employee experience
Employee experience Alignment and friction prevention Organizational health Organizational development
Employee experience Organizational clarity Organizational development Organizational health Onboarding Startup Alignment and friction prevention Leadership support and enablement Role clarity Leadership development
Employee experience Organizational development Organizational health Startup Leadership support and enablement Alignment and friction prevention Management Leadership development
Employee experience Ansattopplevelse
Employee experience Organizational health Leadership support and enablement Management Leadership development
Employee experience Onboarding
Startup Focus Employee experience
Organizational health Organizational development Onboarding Employee experience Leadership support and enablement Management Leadership development
Startup Sales enablement
Lederstøtte Lederutvikling
Commitment qualification
Scaling up
Leadership support and enablement Leadership development Employee experience
Management Focus Leadership support and enablement Leadership development Operational management
Organizational health Organizational resilience Organizational development Management Leadership support and enablement Leadership development
Lederstøtte
Product management
Organizational health Performance management
Scaling up