Design Your Business
A Creative Pathway to Transforming Ideas into Successful Products
- 186 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Design Your Business
A Creative Pathway to Transforming Ideas into Successful Products
About this book
This actionable and lively guide helps aspiring entrepreneurs to acquire a designer's mindset to transform ideas into successful products, and designers and technologists to identify entrepeneurial opportunities through a unique mix of product and business development toolkits.
Unlike other books focusing either downstream on the launch of a new venture or upstream on ideation and the acquisition of an entrepreneurial mindset, Design Your Business helps innovators to cross the chasm between attractive ideas and actual products, a crucial test in any entrepreneurial endeavor and one which most innovative ideas do not pass. Throughout the book, readers will learn about methods, steps, and resources to unleash their creativity, understand users' needs, build and test prototypes, and design beautiful products. At the end of this design journey, readers will find an essential business toolkit including business model design, intellectual property protection, funding, and development of effective communication skills that will help them to lay the foundation of a successful venture built around a successful product.
This book will become an essential and thought-provoking resource for aspiring entrepreneurs, makers, students of entrepreneurship and new venture creation, and professionals seeking to adopt a design mindset and agile project management in their projects and organizations.
Slides and teaching materials based on this book are curated from the authors and available for free at this link: https://elegantdesignthinking.com/category/learning-resources/
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 A design mindset to entrepreneurship
- 2 A creative mindset for entrepreneurship
- 3 Empathy: the art and practice of customer discovery
- 4 Creative confidence, part 1: Say it! Articulate your value proposition
- 5 Creative confidence, part 2: Make it! The importance of prototyping
- 6 The agile entrepreneur: iterate, iterate, and iterate again!
- 7 Make it simpler: design strategies for smart simplicity
- 8 Design strategies to complexify your product
- 9 The scientist entrepreneur: learning from failure
- 10 From prototypes to businesses: design your business model
- 11 A primer on intellectual property
- 12 How to craft effective investor presentations
- 13 Let’s talk money
- 14 Where do we go from here?
- Index