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02Course · Validate

What must be true for this to make money

Course 8 of 9 in the Start a Business with AI Program

You write down what has to go right for the business to make money and when you'll check each point.

What you take away

A plan with assumptions and checkpoints

What you do

Write your discovery plan

How you learn

  1. 01

    The idea

    The theory in a short video, with its author and a verified public case.

  2. 02

    Worked case

    The same theory applied step by step to an example business that stays with you across the route.

  3. 03

    A case from your industry

    A business from your own industry, half built, for you to complete. Your agent checks your work against the rubric.

  4. 04

    Your business

    The full task on your own business. Your agent asks questions, checks each criterion quoting your work and points out your next step.

    In the last pass, this is the task:Write your discovery plan

Supporting authors

  • Discovery-Driven GrowthRita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan

From the Start a Business with AI Program

  1. The job your customer hires you for
  2. Talk to 10 customers without selling
  3. Your value proposition on one page
  4. Your business model on one page
  5. Prototype your customer's experience
  6. Your riskiest assumptions
  7. Your minimum experiment
  8. What must be true for this to make money
  9. Validate and launch an offer