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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Prelude
Book Overview
Part I: Hard Facts
1: The Law of Market Failure
Failure Is Not an Option—Not!
The Law of Market Failure
Market Failure and Success Defined
Market Failure Statistics
The Success Equation
Too Smart to Fail?
Failophobia
FLOP
2: The Right It
The Wrong It
Thoughtland
Hocus-Pocus Focus Groups
The Four Trolls of Thoughtland
Thoughtland and False Positives
Thoughtland and False Negatives
Escape from Thoughtland
3: Data Beats Opinions
Other People’s Data
You Must Get Your Own DAta
Quick Recap
Part II: Sharp Tools
4: Thinking Tools
Market Engagement Hypothesis
Say It with Numbers
Hypozooming
5: Pretotyping Tools
The IBM Speech-to-Text Example
Pretotyping
In Search of Pretotypes
The Mechanical Turk Pretotype
The Pinocchio Pretotype
The Fake Door Pretotype
The Facade Pretotype
The YouTube Pretotype
The One-Night Stand Pretotype
The Infiltrator Pretotype
The Relabel Pretotype
Pretotyping Variations and Combinations
What Makes a Pretotype a Pretotype
6: Analysis Tools
The Skin-in-the-Game Caliper
The TRI Meter
Part III: Plastic Tactics
7: Tactics Toolkit
Tactic 1: Think Globally, Test Locally
Tactic 2: Testing Now Beats Testing Later
Tactic 3: Think Cheap, Cheaper, Cheapest
Tactic 4: Tweak It and Flip It Before You Quit It
8: Complete Example: BusU
Thinking Clearly About Our Idea
Time to Test
Analyzing and Iterating
A Lucky Break
A Few Notes About the BusU Example
9: Final Words
The Right It: A Recap
What to Build?
Acknowledgments
Glossary
About the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
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