What you'll learn
- New startup founders
- Business owners looking to launch new products
- Product manager
- Marketing professionals
Requirements
- No experience required.
Description
You are competing with 30,000 new products that enter the marketplace every year.
Nearly ALL of them, about 95%, will fail, according to Clayton Christensen, a well-respected Harvard professor.
The reason that so many new ventures fail is simple - the go-to-market (GTM) strategy failed.
Every other reason, a lack of funding, cash-flow problems, and other reasons, comes back to a lack of ability to find and win the right customers.
Think about it. You don’t have cash-flow problems if your product is selling well.
You can self-fund, or bootstrap, the growth of your business if your product is selling well, or at least most business models can.
But, that isn’t the reality for nearly every new product.
Where they go wrong is the founder(s) have a good idea and they charge forward without a go-to-market strategy, so they:
Don’t understand their target market(s) at an intimate level.
Don’t know what pricing strategies work best for their target market(s).
Skip over performing market research that allows them to carve out their own niche.
Spend too much energy, money, and time on the early versions of their product.
Those mistakes are exactly what I'm going to help you avoid.
Here’s what I'm not going to do:
I won’t go deep into tactics. Why? Because tactics are specific to a bunch of variables. Ex. your industry, the number and size of your competitors, how much energy, money, and time you can invest into your product’s go-to-market activities, and more. But, the information I give you will help you develop your own tactics.
I can't save a bad business model. If your product is not well researched or poorly designed, customers will eventually take their business elsewhere.
If you are starting a new business or need to dial in your go-to-market strategies for an existing business, this information is for you.
This course includes:
- a 21,000 word companion eBook/guide covering the information
- a template for competitor research
- a template for customer research
This course has the same video lessons as offered on my personal website, but here it does not include:
- My AI as your Chief Marketing Officer guide (how to use generative AI prompts to run your Marketing)
- My Go-to-Market Validation Guide (how to validate new product ideas)
- My Product Launch Checklist template
- My User Persona template
- My Business Plan template
Who this course is for:
- New entrepreneurs, founders, and business owners.
Instructor
Hi, there. ?
I'm JP.
I'm a 3x founder and 2x Senior Executive in Finance and Product Management where I've helped companies raise over $800M in funding and do over $300M in product launches.
In hopes we can learn more about each other, here are a few things that define me:
- Proud husband and father
- Have helped entrepreneurs raise over $800,000,000 in capital between both debt and equity facilities
- Founder of 3 startups. Each named “first-mover” in their respective industries
- Helped multiple companies improve their sales and net profit by 10x factors
- C-level executive in the banking industry
- Recognized as the top lending executive in my industry in 2014
- Recognized for innovation in the banking industry for my Feasible Funding software solution
- Led the top Small Business Administration (SBA) lender in my state for 4 consecutive years
- Marketing degree and have run the Marketing Department for a 230MM organization
- Regular pitch competition judge and incubator mentor
- Board member for the Fairview Technology Incubator
- Board member to one of the first healthcare co-ops in the United States
- Board member to the second-largest credit agency in the United States
- 1996 State Karate Champion
- Trained in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under the Gracie family
- Have coached multiple people through massive weight loss (50+ pounds)