Starting A Startup

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as shown in this reddit a lot for examples where people started with the wrong mindset ,made things for free and ended up out of business, it’s paid from day one, that’s a business not a charity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHyU54GhfGs You need to get feedback before writing code as simple formula is

As a: ………………. I need: ……………. So I can: …………… But give it as much texture as you can

for example

As a lazy cat owner I need *monthly food box so I can not leave the house

now you can list the customer journey from the start knowing nothing about you until they buy, for example.

  1. Decision (could be from and ad or a social media app and click the link)
  2. WTF? (How does it work and how much)
  3. What type are you, (in our example: what type of cat you got)
  4. Plan (in our example: do you want weekly monthly delivery or yearly)
  5. How big are you (In our example: big cat, indoor, organic, vegan)
  6. Shipping (what way we will ship the box)
  7. Create an account to confirm ( what is the ways to login/signup)
  8. Order confirm and support (what happens after ordering)
  9. Food box received (what to do after a customer received the order)

Now this flow was built on the as, I need, so I can, example. The goal now is to do the Minimum Viable Product. to do that we need to look at the flow and MINIMIZE IT

Here is three tools you can use

  • 😡Sad face - (users hate this)
  • 😀 Happy face - (users like this)
  • 🪶 Brand - your brand benefits

let’s cut the flow, to make it simpler to let the user reach his goal of the Food box:

  1. Decision (could be from and ad or a social media app and click the link)
  2. 😀WTF? (How does it work and how much)
  3. 😡What kind are you, (in our example: what kind of cat you got)
  4. 🪶Plan (in our example: do you want weekly monthly delivery or yearly)
  5. 😀😡How big/type are you (In our example: big cat, indoor, organic, vegan)
  6. 😡Shipping (what way we will ship the box)
  7. 😡 Create an account to confirm ( what is the ways to login/signup)
  8. 😀Order confirm and support (what happens after ordering)
  9. 🪶😀Food box received (what to do after a customer received the order)

Now let’s clean this up, this clean up can be based on the feature or it’s in components, like a plan could have yearly, monthly weekly, and it’s not only monthly.

  1. Decision (could be from and ad or a social media app and click the link)
  2. WTF? (How does it work and how much)
  3. Plan (monthly)
  4. How big/type are you (now only vegan)
  5. Order confirm and support (what happens after ordering)
  6. Food box received (what to do after a customer received the order)

Now after removing all the fat from the idea and keeping only the things that are super necessary, so we went from a full thick 9 step process to 6 minimum process to reach the customer goal, so it will look like example

If you want to test the business with no product you can, make this website and ask users to pay and run ads on a keyword and see if you got enough buyers if things look good you can refund to the users there money and let them know it’s coming soon. if not refund the money and close the idea.

example

MVP examples

buffer example

dropbox, made a video example, with a waiting a list

example

Zappos He went to a shoes store and took images of shoes and he was putting these images in a website and adding a buy button to it, whenever someone buys he deliver it for them

Start up business model

  1. Value propositions
    • It’s not your idea or product, it’s about what pain or gain you are creating and who is your customer
  2. Customer segments
    • Who are your customers and how is there persona look like
  3. Channels
    • How to reach your customers to sell them
  4. Customer relationships
    • How to get, keep, grow your customers
  5. Revenue Streams
    • What is the value the customer is paying for and how is the customer is going to pay
  6. Resources
    • What are the most important assets you need to make this business work
  7. Partners
    • Who are the key partners and suppliers needed to make this business work
  8. Activities
    • What is the key skills or activity you need to become good at to do this business
  9. Costs
    • What is the cost and expenses to operate the entire business, and list them from important to least important and form highest to lowest

Starting a social media account before writing code and upload content about this niche and see if you get engagement and let users answer your questions

example

Quick hype business For a hype business do -> One feature apps with specific users. For a new business -> do a landing page and act like you have the product and sell, if you made enough sales then you can refund and build the product.

Long term business For long term business -> Social media start, content about the topic you want to sell. For existing business -> Social media start and build a community