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The Struggling Entrepreneur's Guide To A Killer Product Idea

Name: The Struggling Entrepreneur's Guide To A Killer Product Idea
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How To Come Up With A Blockbuster Idea

Created byHelen Brookes

Last updated 5/2017

English

What you'll learn

Learn how to come up with a killer idea.
Will your idea work? Test any idea rapidly and cheaply
Find new ideas and inspiration for your blockbuster.
Become a market disruptor

Course content

6 sections • 13 lectures • 1h 2m total length

Why You Must Do This Course: The Importance Of A Brilliant Idea5:15
After completing this lecture, you will understand the critical importance of a good idea for your business or consultancy. You will see how fortunes have been made by ordinary people, just from good ideas. Innovation is the new gold.
Welcome To The Course; And What You'll Get Out Of It4:27
At the end of this lecture, students will understand exactly what content the course carries, how long the course will take, its format, and what resources are available to help them along the way. The students will understand exactly what skills and tools they'll master in order to start generating and processing their ideas for a blockbuster product or service.
The DNA Of A Killer Idea7:15
After completing this lecture, students will understand exactly what characteristics of an idea turn it into a blockbuster.

What Is LEAN? Lean Principles In A Nutshell3:47
After completing this lecture, students will understand the principles governing Lean, the concept or management system that aims to increase inefficiencies and reduce waste. They will begin to understand how these principles can be adapted to their own unique circumstances in order to get them to quickly come up with brilliant ideas for their new product or service.
How to LEAN: The Industry Secret Powering Every Successful Startup or Brand1:50
After completing this lecture students will understand the Lean Process or Methodology, which will guide them as they create their own idea generation and testing system.

The Blockbuster Idea Generation Canvas: Ideas That Will Make You Money5:21
At the end of this lecture, students will understand what the Blockbuster Idea Generation Canvas is, and how exactly to use it as a brainstorming tool to come up with ideas that:
a) meets their customers' or clients' needs,
b) solves their problems and,
c) is matched to the students' own unique skills, talents, resources, and any "unfair advantage" the student might have.
Get Into Your Customer's Head: Creating Your Customer Persona3:38
After completing this lecture, students will understand what a Customer Persona is, and how to fill it out in order to create a personalised representation of their target demographic, in order to correctly generate ideas that meet this demographics needs.

The Discipline Of Innovative Process: From Wishful Thinking To True Innovation2:13
After completing this lecture, students will understand the importance of approaching the creative process as a discipline or science. They will also understand the very serious consequences of not using a proper system to develop their ideas.
Where To Find Ideas4:04
After completing this lecture, students will have the tools and information that will enable them to effectively scout for ideas. They will learn how to observe existing businesses and how to target those businesses' weaknesses in order to come up with ideas that will enable them capture a share of the market. They will learn how to listen to potential clients and how to develop ideas for products or services that customers will be willing to pay for.
Do Not Be Afraid To Re-invent Yourself3:20
After completing this lecture, students will understand the importance of reinvention, both at a personal and business level. They will understand the enormous financial rewards that can be gained from reinvention, and will see examples of how both ordinary and famous individuals and brands have benefited from reinventing themselves.

Pretotyping and Testing: Do They Want It, Can We Make It, Will It Make Money?5:16
After completing this lecture, students will discover and understand what methods are used in the industry to quickly, but cheaply, test product or service ideas for market viability. They will understand that it is not necessary to invest time and resources in developing a full product to test whether or not potential customers will pay for it. They will understand the definitions of the terms "Pretotype" and "Minimum Viable Product (MVP)" and how these clever idea testing methods differ from Prototypes especially in their ability to test a product or service for market viability fast, but without breaking the bank.
How To Use Pretotypes and MVPs: Rapid Idea Testing On A Shoestring10:12
After completing this lecture, the students will discover and understand how the following Pretotypes and MVPs work:
Mechanical Turk
Fake Door
Wizard of Oz
Ad Campaigns
Crowdfunding
Impersonator
Single Feature MVP
Pinocchio
Classic Pretotype
One-Day Release

The lecture uses real life examples of how these methods have been used by well-known names like Zappas, IBM and Tesla Motors and, where appropriate, lists the providers of some of these testing methods (eg Amazon Mechanical Turk).

Your Killer Idea MasterPlan: Putting It All Togeter5:39
At the end of this practical exercise, students will have created their very own "Blockbuster Idea Generation" system, using the downloadable Master Plan template that puts together all the steps and tools needed to generate a killer idea. They will understand how to utilise all the tools, templates and information made available during the course to come up with ideas that meet the following important criteria that are the DNA of a blockbuster idea:

meets customer needs,
solves customer problem,
is something customers are willing to pay fo,r
matches developer's skills, tools and resources, and
(optionally) utilise any "unfair advantage" that the developer has.

Requirements

The course has no prerequisites, just a willingness to commit to the process and to embrace some counter-intuitive thinking.

Description

The Struggling Entrepreneur's Guide To A Killer Product Idea

Fed up of pushing products or services no-one wants to buy? Learn How Come Up With A Killer Idea! Your next blockbuster starts here.

Learn how to unearth the single great idea for a product or service to transform your business or consultancy.

Learn how you can create your own personalised system to generate a blockbuster idea for a product or service, using an industry proven method, simplified in this course for the cash-strapped and time-poor.

Create And Customise Your Very Own “Blockbuster Idea Generation Machine” With Our Simplified Implementation Of The LEAN Process

Learn a tried and tested technique for generating market-ready product and business ideas, fast.
Create and customise your very own product or service idea generation and testing system.
Learn how to test your idea for market viability using existing free or inexpensive tools.
Master the discipline of innovative thought.
Discover where to find new ideas and inspiration for your new product or service.
Become a market disruptor.

Create a simple, yet powerful system for fast product or service innovation.

Have you ever wondered how businesses, and even individuals come up with ideas for brilliant products or services we didn't even know we needed? The good news is, if you are disciplined enough to follow through, there is a proven, scientific process to generate and test your ideas for market-viability. Put simply, you can learn how to come up with your own blockbuster idea, without breaking the bank.

The life-transforming power of a single great idea cannot be exaggerated. The wonderful truth of our times is that anyone, anyone at all, now has the tools and technology to come up with the next big idea. The course exposes you to the tools, processes and technology to enable you to come up with a new, potentially life-changing product or service idea for your business or consultancy. You will learn how to to create your own personalised system, process and practice to generate your single great idea.

Content and Overview

The course has no requirements for prior prerequisites. Anyone can join. Over the course of 10 lectures with accompanying practical exercises, you will learn how to systematically generate and capture your ideas, and most importantly, the very specific process of testing them for market viability. You will also learn to develop a schedule for all the tasks you will need to complete for your “blockbuster idea generation machine” to give you results.

The course starts with the idea generation process. At the end of that section, you will know how to plan, schedule and process your customised system. Please note that wishful thinking will not work. There is a discipline to the innovative creative process that needs to be mastered for this to work. It is a most important aspect of the system.

The next step, which is quite detailed and technical, show you exactly how to test your ideas. You will be given the proven tools against which you can accurately judge the market-viability of a product. This is important because, committing to product development before knowing whether or not it will be successful is a bad mistake.

Finally, you will will put it all together into a personalised schedule of tasks and processes you will follow until you get your blockbuster idea. This is your very own “blockbuster idea generation machine.” Countless businesses today utilise variants of this process to come up with fantastic products. Their power is now in your reach. The course unapologetically does have a very specific focus on transforming the finances of a struggling business or individual. This should be your ultimate goal.

The content and resources in the course are designed to equip you with a customised system to generate and test ideas for commercial success.

Good luck!

What are the requirements?

A willingness to commit to the process
A willingness to embrace some counter-intuitive thinking

What am I going to get from this course?

At the end of this course, you will be able to come up with a new, potentially life-changing product or service idea for their business or consultancy.
They will know how to create your own personalised system, process and practice to generate their single great idea.
Finally, you have your very own personalised schedule of tasks and processes to follow until you get your blockbuster idea.

Who should take this course?

struggling entrepreneurs
freelancers and contractors languishing at the bottom of the market
small businesses battling a harsh economic climate
work-from-home personnel struggling to find enough work
time and money poor employees wishing to strike out on their own

Who should not?

This course is not for anyone looking for generic feel-good fluff or a motivational pick-me-up. It is a practical, almost technical course to get ideas out of your brain to a market-ready product idea that can transform your finances.

Who this course is for:

This course is aimed at individuals whose small business, professional consultancy, freelancing or personal brand is struggling financially and in need of a new and innovative product or service idea that will transform their finances. Specifically: • struggling entrepreneurs • freelancers and contractors languishing at the bottom of the market • small businesses battling a harsh economic climate • work-from-home personnel struggling to find enough work • time and money poor employees wishing to strike out on their own This course is not for anyone looking for generic feel-good fluff or a motivational pick-me-up. It is a practical, almost technical course outlining a practical system to get ideas out of one’s brain to a market-ready product idea for commercial or financial success.

The Struggling Entrepreneur's Guide To A Killer Product Idea

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Course content

Welcome and Introduction3 lectures • 17min

How to LEAN: The Industry Secret Powering Every Successful Startup or Brand2 lectures • 6min

Creating Your Idea Generation System: Blockbuster Idea Generation Tools2 lectures • 9min

The Discipline Of Innovative Thought: From Wishful Thinking To Killer Ideas3 lectures • 10min

Blockbuster or Dud: Find Out Fast, and On a Shoestring2 lectures • 15min

Putting It All Together: Your Killer Idea Generation And Testing Master Plan1 lecture • 6min

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