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Idea Validation Playbook

Validate the market

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Market Demand Testing

Strategies to ensure there is a market for your customer's problem

These experiments are part of the Validation Patterns printed card deck

A collection of 60 product experiments that will validate your idea in a matter of days, not months. They are regularly used by product builders at companies like Google, Facebook, Dropbox, and Amazon.

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Classified Posting

Explain and offer your future service through a classified ad

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Closed-Ended Surveys

Survey specific performed behaviors and habits in potential customers

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Cold Calling

Gauge interest from prospects with whom you have no prior contact

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Collect Pre-orders

Allow users to place an order for an item which has not yet been released

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Concierge

Personally deliver your service to test product satisfaction

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Conjoint Analysis

Statistically estimate consumers' psychological trade-offs through surveys

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Crowdfunding

Fundraise for product development or production

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Data Mining

Crunch and combine data to discover trends in market and user behavior

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Dry Wallet

Simulate a 'pay now' experience

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Event

Arrange a live event to gauge customer interest

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Fake door testing

Pretend to provide a product or feature without actually developing it

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Feature Stub

Design the smallest thing possible that might invalidate your hypothesis

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Five People Who Are In

If you cannot find five, your market is too small or too hard to reach

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High Hurdle

Make the user experience more difficult to use to gauge keen interest

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Mashup

Assemble a product by piecing together third-party products

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Offer a Sample

Create a teaser for your full product experience

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One Night Stand

Probe demand with a temporary working solution

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Physical Before Digital

Sell a physical version before creating its digital equivalent

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Product-Market Fit Survey

Ask users how they would feel if they could no longer use a product

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Provincial

Run a test on a very small sample before launching world-wide

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Run Test Ads

Test several value propositions to see which converts better

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Sales Pitch

Present the sales pitch of your product to a potential customer

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Single-Feature Product

A reduced product solving one specific problem for one specific niche

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Spoof Landing Pages

Build one or more one-page sites that advertise your (fictional) product

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Trends and Keyword Analysis

Analyze trends and habits to validate existing interests

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Video Demo

Simulate a working product through a recorded video walkthrough

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Wizard of Oz

Use human power to fake automation of complex tasks

Important for this playbook

Don’t build something that nobody wants

Why would you build a product if nobody will buy it when you’re done?

Once you have spoken to users and validated that the problem exists, the next step is explore wehtehr there is a large enough market to justify taking the idea further. Some users might agree that this is a problem worth solving. But are there enough of them to make up a market for your product?

Are there enough users to make up a market for your product?

Where will your users come from, what segment of users are more profitable, and how much revenue might lie in the market opportunity?

When validating market demand, you will need to research and analyzez both existing and sibling market sizes and potential demand for your idea.

By gathering information about the potential market, you will be able to make educated guesses as to the size of your target audience and how many customer you can acquire. One goal might be to establish a baseline as input to your future business plan as well as potential pricing points and models for your product.

These experiments are part of the Validation Patterns printed card deck

A collection of 60 product experiments that will validate your idea in a matter of days, not months. They are regularly used by product builders at companies like Google, Facebook, Dropbox, and Amazon.

Get your deck!

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