Bet against the consensus and be right. Identify something that is a good idea, but sounds like a bad idea.
“An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.” - Reid Hoffman
Responsibilities contained in this role:
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
Segments and buyer personas (profiles).
Check out how to use the concept of Profiles and Propositions to better understand what your target market cares about.
"It's better to make a product 100 people LOVE, than a product 1 million people just like."
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.
From 11:00 - 12:51
From 20:30 - 23:05
Check out how to manage hypothesis in the Wecomplish platform.
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