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A taste of Entrepreneurship - Bootstrapping
November 15, 2015 - February 15, 2016
Get a feel for what the world of entrepreneurship is about by making your first dollars online. Discover what it means to be a tech entrepreneur by trying it out.
Learn how to:
- Create a product that users want
- Sell it online
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Start with an idea!
Milestone 1: Coming up with a business idea
Make a list of products that your exited to buy
Make a list of problems that you see in your everyday life.
Ask 20 people: What's the biggest problem you had today?
What about your skills?
Make a list of skills that you have
Make a list of 10 people that could help you.
Make a budget for how much money you can spend on creating your product
Keep a list of at least 30 ideas for products that you can sell online
Lessons Learned
Read chapter 1-3 of Running Lean
Conduct your first 5 user interviews
Lessons Learned from first 5 interviews
Conduct 10 more user interviews
Lessons Learned
Conduct 5-20 more user interviews
Lessons Learned
Choose problem you are going to solve
Milestone 3: Prototyping your solution
Build version 1
Create a landing page
5 user interviews
Choose how you will sell your product
Define a price for you product
Milestone 4: Selling
Read a Sales Book
Create a sales strategy
Sell your first unit
Talk to 30 new potential customers in 1 week
Get rejected for the first time
Celebrate your first sales.
Lessons Learned
Milestone 5: Iterating
Create version 2 of your protoype
Interview 5 potential users
Lessons Learned
Make 1 big change to protoype 2
Interview 10 more customers
Lessons Learned
Launch Version 2
Celebrate your first product cycle
Define a Problem
Milestone 2: Define a problem