The New Business Road Test: What Entrepreneurs and Executives Should Do Before Launching a Lean Start-up

The New Business Road Test: What Entrepreneurs and Executives Should Do Before Launching a Lean Start-up

ROAD TEST YOUR IDEA BEFORE YOU WRITE YOUR LEAN START-UP Thinking about starting a new business? Stop! Is there a genuine market for your idea? Do you really want to compete in that industry? Are you the right person to pursue it? No matter how talented you are or how much capital you have, if you’re pursuing a fundamentally flawed opportunity then you’re heading for failure. So before you launch your lean start-up, take your idea for a test drive and make sure it has a fighting chance of working. With an accompanying app, available on iTunes and Android, that will enable readers to easily capture their road test data - notes, interviews, photos or videos - while they are on the go. www.newbusinessroadtest.com ‘Mullins has hit the nail on the head. I wish this book had been given to every entrepreneur who appeared before me on Dragons’ Den .’ Doug Richard, founder of School for Startups ROAD TEST YOUR IDEA BEFORE YOU LAUNCH YOUR LEAN START-UP Thinking about starting a new business? Stop! Is there a genuine market for your idea? Do you really want to compete in that industry? Are you the right person to pursue it? No matter how talented you are or how much capital you have, if you’re pursuing a fundamentally flawed opportunity then you’re heading for failure. So before you launch your lean start-up, take your idea for a test drive and make sure it has a fighting chance of working. With an accompanying app, available on iTunes and Android. www.newbusinessroadtest.com John Mullins , a veteran of three entrepreneurial ventures and a professor at the London Business School, teaches and studies entrepreneurship and the management and financing of rapidly growing businesses. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a PhD in marketing from the University of Minnesota. He is co-author of three other books including the widely acclaimed Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model . His newest book named by Fortune Magazine's Verne Harnish as one of five 'not-to-be-missed' books for 2014, is The Customer-Funded Business: Start, Finance, or Grow Your Company with Your Customers' Cash.