Bet against the consensus and be right. Identify something that is a good idea, but sounds like a bad idea. Acquire product-market fit.
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
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).
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.
"It's better to make a product 100 people LOVE, than a product 1 million people just like."
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.
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.
Startup
Recruitment
Startup
Structure Organizational development Startup
Market validation
Communication