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How to Identify Your Riskiest Business Model Assumptions

The true job of an entrepreneur is to systematically de-risk their business model over time. While you might be excited by your idea’s potential, others don’t see what you see. What they see instead is something untested and risky. * You have to derisk your idea to convince your
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Ash Maurya
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Vitamins Don't Have a Triggering Event

Vitamins Don't Have a Triggering Event

How I learned to stop procrastinating and start realizing that now is the best time to launch or pivot a new product offering or startup – yes, despite the pandemic. Were you in the middle of launching a new product or startup when the pandemic hit? Like many entrepreneurs, you probably
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But, Will it Scale?

When I started this blog, I often spent upwards of 8 hours on a single blog post. A number of my entrepreneur friends and advisers asked…
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Innovation Management

I spend a lot of time at the intersection of “business modeling” and “lean startup” and have been looking for the right category label to describe this type of work. It’s not enough to call it one or the other. After much deliberation, I’ve settled on the label:
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Ash Maurya
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The LEAN Sprint

Experiments power breakthrough discovery in both the Scientific Method and our adaptation of it for entrepreneurship: Herein lies the key to breakthrough in both: If your guess disagrees with experiment, it is wrong. It doesn’t matter how beautiful your guess is, how smart you are, who made the guess,
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Ash Maurya
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The Innovation Challenge

Whether it’s getting the green light on a new venture or securing an additional round of funding, entrepreneurs and innovators are constantly faced with the challenge of demonstrating progress to their stakeholders. Up until now, we have typically relied on two measures of progress: how much stuff we’re
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How to Avoid the Innovator’s Bias for the Solution

I’ve previously described the importance of uncovering problems worth solving early in your business modeling, but how do you avoid the innovator’s bias for the solution? The recommended path for filling out a Lean Canvas is starting with the problem/customer segment quadrant, but if you already carry
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