TEACH
Build Your Own Startup
A step-by-step workshop that takes a hypothetical startup from a problem worth solving to a one-week experiment. Printable.
- Type
- Worksheet
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Length
- Printable workshop
This workshop turns the ideas from Startup 101 into something you actually do. Work through the nine steps for a startup you could imagine starting. Answer honestly; the point is to think, not to have a polished plan. Print it, or fill it in as you go.
STEP 1 — FIND A PROBLEM
What is frustrating, expensive, slow, confusing, or inaccessible?
STEP 2 — CHOOSE A USER
Who specifically experiences this problem?
STEP 3 — UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM
What does this person currently do instead?
STEP 4 — DESIGN A SOLUTION
What is the simplest possible version?
STEP 5 — TEST IT
How could you find out whether people actually want this?
STEP 6 — BUSINESS MODEL
Who pays, and why?
STEP 7 — FIRST 10 USERS
How would you find them?
STEP 8 — BIGGEST RISK
What could make this idea fail?
STEP 9 — ONE-WEEK EXPERIMENT
What can you test in the next seven days?