Topic 1.4 How Do Business Ideas Originate? · pipeline build
💡 💡 📓 watch people 📋 count answers 📦 build rough and find out you were half wrong entrepreneurial DESIGN THINKING tested in multiple-choice tested in the Canvas FRQ Topic 1.4 · How Do Business Ideas Originate? ENTREPRENEUR develops a new business AND assumes the risks and potential rewards RISK: savings gone REWARD: profit is hers salaried manager ≠ entrepreneur: no downside carried Three ways ideas are generated — evidence, not inspiration 1 · OBSERVE · INTERVIEW · SURVEY potential customers → identify NEEDS library 7 pm 40 turned away × 3 nights 2 · MARKET & TECH RESEARCH read what exists → find GAPS no late-night café within 1 mile = market gap 3 · EXPERIMENT try things → new CAPABILITIES 🔬 new oven → product nobody nearby sells existing businesses use these too — not just startups Why is launching risky? Three resources, all with costs 💵 FINANCIAL ☕ PHYSICAL 🧑🍳 HUMAN PRODUCT ? enough revenue to cover costs + profit? certain costs NOW · uncertain revenue LATER = the risk So why take the risk? Three incentives 💰 FUTURE PROFIT 🙂 SOLVING A PROBLEM ❤️ PURSUING A PASSION read for money · problem-solving · passion — never a fourth 1 VALIDATE PROBLEM 2 DEVELOP SOLUTION 3 VALIDATE w/ MVP VALIDATION at stage 1 = evidence that the problem (a) EXISTS (b) can be CLEARLY DEFINED (c) is shared by MULTIPLE customers not one friend · not your own feeling 40 turned away × 3 nights → exists 12 interviews “nowhere after 6” → defined + shared Canvas FRQ: evidence from several real people BEFORE building 1 VALIDATE PROBLEM 2 DEVELOP SOLUTION 3 VALIDATE w/ MVP 🗒️ brainstorm ✏️ sketch 📦 prototype 1 VALIDATE PROBLEM 2 DEVELOP SOLUTION 3 VALIDATE w/ MVP MVP = simplest version, core features only a sketch · a description · a model “café near library, open till 9, seat + outlet for everyone — would you come? what would you pay?” 30 students asked 22 said yes avg price $3.90 (she thought $3.50) learn what you were wrong about BEFORE spending real money A famous example, framed the exam’s way 2007 · San Francisco 🏨 every hotel sold out → problem OBSERVED 🛏️ air mattresses + breakfast basic web page = MVP 👥 3 guests paid → idea VALIDATED the company that grew from it: Airbnb what they did NOT do: build the app first, raise millions, then look for customers problem → simple solution → feedback · same loop as Mina entrepreneur = new business + risks & rewards ideas: observe/interview/survey · research gaps · experiment risk = resources cost now, revenue not guaranteed why: profit · solving a problem · passion loop: validate problem → solution → MVP feedback MVP = simplest, core features: sketch / description / model Business Canvas · Tasks 3–5 interview real customers · develop a solution · test one hypothesis keep the numbers — how many you asked, what they said Scene 1 / 9
PAUSE & CHECK Before opening a dog-grooming van, Priya spends two weekends at a dog park asking 25 owners what frustrates them about grooming. Which idea-generation strategy is she using?
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