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When “Scratch Your Own Itch” Is Dangerous Advice for Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

This approach to entrepreneurship increases your market knowledge: as a potential user, you know the problem, how you’re currently trying to solve it, and what dimensions of performance matter. And you can use this knowledge to avoid much of the market risk in building a new product. Disruptive innovation Entrepreneurship'

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Building a Minimum Viable Product? You're Probably Doing it Wrong

Harvard Business Review

But most businesses fail because our assumptions about customer demand are wrong — because of market risk. Test market risk first. These tests substitute human labor for technology, and the human component means we can gather more information from potential customers about their problems and our potential solutions.

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Building a Minimum Viable Product? You’re Probably Doing it Wrong

Harvard Business Review

But most businesses fail because our assumptions about customer demand are wrong — because of market risk. Test market risk first. These tests substitute human labor for technology, and the human component means we can gather more information from potential customers about their problems and our potential solutions.