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Test Your Business Idea the Lean Startup Way

Turn the idea in your head into tests you can run this week, read the numbers that tell the truth, and decide on evidence when to pivot or keep going.

  • Intermediate
  • 18 lessons
  • 40 min to complete

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Entrepreneurship

What it covers

What your people will learn.

  • Entrepreneurship

Most new products fail quietly. The team hits every date, ships what it planned, and learns at launch that the plan was a guess.

The Lean Startup method treats each part of that plan as an assumption to test before the money goes in. You name the belief that would sink the business if it were false, write down the result that would prove it false, and build the smallest thing that gets that answer from real customers. It guarantees nothing, and in field experiments founders who tested their ideas this way did better than founders who went on instinct.

The course covers the whole method in short lessons and practice. You shape a minimum viable product around the risk you actually carry, read your numbers by cohort so that a rising total cannot hide a business standing still, put the pivot-or-persevere decision on a calendar, and grow on the one engine your business runs on.

You walk away with a kill number for your riskiest assumption, one test run on real customers, and a date for your next pivot-or-persevere review.

Who it's for

Founders and product builders: about to put months into a build and want evidence before they do.

Bootstrappers: who cannot afford a wrong six months and need answers for the least cash.

Agencies, coaches and operators: testing a new offer or service line without risking the core business.

The lessons

18 lessons, in order.

About 40 min to complete. Add the course and every lesson is yours to publish as it is, or to edit.

  1. Measure Progress in Validated Learning2 min
  2. Run the Loop Backward2 min
  3. Set a Kill Number for Five Assumptions8 min
  4. Shape the MVP Around Your Biggest Risk2 min
  5. Test the Cheap Risk First1 min
  6. Launch a Group Programme Without Building It4 min
  7. Test the Idea Before You Build Knowledge Check1 min
  8. Spot the Numbers That Can Only Go Up1 min
  9. Run Every Metric Through Three Tests1 min
  10. Explain Why the Total Is Not Progress3 min
  11. Prove Progress With Cohorts2 min
  12. Read the Numbers Honestly Knowledge Check1 min
  13. Why Founders Wait Too Long to Pivot1 min
  14. Put Pivot or Persevere on the Calendar2 min
  15. Run the Review With Flat Cohorts4 min
  16. Grow on One Engine at a Time2 min
  17. Run One Loop on Your Own Idea2 min
  18. Pivot, Persevere and Grow Knowledge Check1 min

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