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Presentation given to participants in 2010 Georgia Tech College of Management Business Plan Competition. Focus of presentation was writing the marketing portion of the plan, a good number of the slides are spent on customer development.

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DevelopingtheMarke1ngPlanforaNewVenture

LanceWeatherbyJanuary20,2010

Mylifeinlogos

Enoughaboutme

Let’stalkaboutyou

Butit’snotaboutyou,youridea,oryourtechnology

It’saboutthecustomer

Sounderstand&developcustomers

Concept/Bus.Plan

ProductDev.

Alpha/BetaTest

Launch/1stShip

ProductDevelopment

CustomerDevelopmentCompany Building

Customer Discovery

Customer Validation

Customer Creation

Source:hFp://www.slideshare.net/sblank/customer‐development‐at‐startup2startup

Discoveryourcustomersbigproblemsandifyourconceptsolvesthem

WhichmeansyouhavetospendLmetalkingwithpotenLalcustomers

TalkingwithpotenLalcustomersnottosell

Talkingwithcustomerstounderstandtheirunmet

needs

Customer Discovery

Customer Validation

Customer Creation

Company Building

Thegoalistodeveloparepeatableandscalablesalesprocesswithacompleteunderstandingofthesalescycle

Source:hFp://www.slideshare.net/sblank/customer‐development‐at‐startup2startup

Butyouhavetohaveabusinessplanforthis

compeLLon

AndthatbusinessplanneedsmarketandmarkeLngstuff

SizedoesnotmaFer

MarketsizeisintuiLve

TopDown

BoFomup

PropersegmentaLon

MarkeLngstrategyisthoughtsandwords

AmarkeLngplanisraLonalnumbers

It’sbasicallythetoplinedetailsofafinancialplan

Nobodyisgoingtobelieveyournumbers

Butnumberslikethesepassthesnifftest

350k 1.5 4.5 15 30

MarkeLngistwothings

Buildingawareness

GeXngcustomers

Allyouhaveisviralandwordofmouth

Tellmewhatdoinfourwords

DensitymaFers

Unlessyouhaveareallygoodreasonnotto,priceat

market

YourdistribuLonstrategyisyou

Channelwon’tsupportaproductwithoutdemand

So

GetoutoftheclassroomandgofindsomepotenLal

customers

LanceWeatherby

lance@weatherby.net

blog.weatherby.net

@lance

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