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The 100 Startup Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau (z-lib.org).epub

The 140-Character Mission Statement
Let’s break down the planning process into a very simple exercise: defining
the  mission  statement  for  your  business  (or  your  business  idea)  in  140
characters  or  less.  That  is  the  maximum  amount  of  text  for  an  update  on
Twitter and a good natural limit for narrowing down a concept. It may help
to think of the first two characteristics of any business: a product or service
and the group of people who pay for it. Put the two together and you’ve got
a mission statement:
We provide [product or service] for [customers].
As described in 
Chapter 2
, it’s usually better to highlight a core benefit of
your business instead of a descriptive feature. Accordingly, you can revise
the statement a bit to read like this:
We help [customers] do/achieve/other verb [primary benefit].
Focusing like this helps you avoid “corporate speak” and drill down to the
real purpose of the business as it relates to your customers. Here are a few
examples:
If  you  have  a  dog-walking  service,  the  feature  is  “I  walk  dogs.”  The
benefit is “I help busy owners feel at ease about their dogs when they’re not
able to be with them.”
If  you  sell  knitted  hat  patterns,  the  benefit  is  something  like  “I  help
people  be  creative  by  making  a  hat  for  themselves  or  someone  close  to
them.”
If you make custom wedding stationery, you might say, “I help couples
feel  special  about  their  big  day  by  providing  them  with  amazing
invitations.”
How about you? What is the 140-character (or less) mission statement of
your business idea?
 


Jen and Omar followed the $100 Startup model: Focusing on the specific
combination  of  their  unique  skills,  they  made  an  interesting  product  that
other  people  also  valued.  They  gave  their  customers  what  they  wanted
without hiding their real lives: Their website contains blog entries on their
home life, complete with cat photos—but doesn’t go into all the details of
making prints that most customers would find irrelevant.
They chose a marketable idea and were encouraged by their first day of
sales. They kept costs low, bootstrapping out of their tiny apartment and not
borrowing  a  single  dollar.  As  the  business  grew  rapidly,  they  regrouped,
taking stock of what was working (make more maps) and what wasn’t (stop
going to the post office all the time).
Most important, instead of thinking about it forever or filling up a binder
with projections, Jen and Omar took action.
KEY POINTS
 “Plan as you go” to respond to the changing needs of your customers
but  launch  your  business  as  soon  as  possible,  with  a  bias  toward
action.
 Nick’s first print sale provided far more motivation than the $50 he
received. As soon as possible, find a way to get your first sale.
  Follow  the  Seven  Steps  to  Instant  Market  Testing  (or  the  market
before manufacturing method) to gauge the initial response.
  Use  the  One-Page  Business  Plan  to  outline  your  business  ideas
quickly.
 To avoid overcomplicating things, explain your business with a 140-
Character Mission Statement.
 
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I’m grateful to Jason Fried from 37signals for this idea.

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