Technology Entrepreneurship
Professor Chuck Eesley, Stanford University
Assignments
Identifying the market opportunity / Low-fidelity Prototype due / testing your value proposition with customers
2. MAGIC MIRROR IN BRIEF
Its a mobile application.
It shows newly arrived dresses, top sellers .
It let the costumer to see how they look in a specific
dress before buying it. He/she can share it in social
networks to gather his/her friends opinion .
Its free, but it has some extra services that
customers are ready to pay for.
3. BEFORE INTERVIEW
We prepared our canvas model(URL:
http://venture-lab.org/venture/team_ideas/6891)
We thought what services will shape our revenue
stream.
We designed some critical questions.
We considered that questions must simple, short
and easy to answer.
The questions are in two categories:
Questions for customers
Question for vendors
Adding new rule for OAP
4. FACE TO FACE INTERVIEWS
Goals:
Testing our "value proposition" with potential customers.
Reconfirming our knowledge about the application.
Customers problems Recognition.
New Goals- Learning from customers(OAP):
Is customers really want our solution?
Is they want any other problem that we solve?
How they solve the problem, now?
5. INTERVIEWEE STATISTICS- FIRST INTERVIEW
Total of interviewee 25
Total of customers 18
Total of vendors 7
men
Women
shop shop sellers
customers
7. CUSTOMERS QUESTIONS(ADDED)
1. If there is a free app for mobile that you can wear
a dress virtually and see how do you look like?
Will you install it on your cell phone?
2. If yes, how many times you use it? For
example, daily, monthly, per case,
3. If you like it, what is the percentage of your future
shopping will be done with this app?
4. For what extra services will you pay?
5. Any other suggestion do you have?
6. Do you think anything else that we could solve or
improve?
8. OAP CHECK
We check our questions with OAP values
Is customers really want our solution?
Answering to question 1 and to 3, showed us that they
really want it, they asked us when it will come to
marketing and how they can get it!
How they solve the problem, now?
Most of them go to shop and find what they want, for
doing that they are spending a lot of time and money.
Is they want any other problem that we solve?
Yes, customer choose the model of dress and
upload, we prepare all other process(like buying the
cloth and giving to tailor and) till we delivery the dress
to him or her.
9. CUSTOMER ANSWERS
NEW INTERVIEW ADDED
Q1: Q2: Using Q3: Q4: Paying for Q5:
Free App, How Percentage extra services Suggestions
App many of using this
Installat app of total
ion
85% yes 2 men use it Average of 100% Yes 1-Giving special
rarely. answering is Some services are: offers or
18 men and 75% 1. Free delivery accessories in
1 woman 2. Cash back in random
use it when case of 2-Wild variety of
they need to dissatisfaction clothing and
shop dress. 3. Showing fashion is great
8 women Auctions and 3-Physical
use it very their remaining shopping is fun
often. time and enjoyable
1 women 4. Looking for a 4-Persons that
used by special dress have Excessive
situation for a ceremony working hours
use it very much
10. VENDORS QUESTIONS
What is the percentage of success for this
application? why?
Do you see similar service?
As a vendor, do you want to pay for this app? How?
Do you have any question or problem with this
app?
11. VENDORS ANSWERS
Q1: Q2: Similar Q3: Percentage Q5: Problems or
Percentage service of paying users questions
of successful lunch - How
Why
75% One vendor: 90% 1-What is the best
Some web If we (vendors) price or affordable
Positive reasons: sites, but not can trust this app. for dress, because
1. It develops more exactly similar there is not haggling
costumers. How: 2-Physical shopping
2. Its attractive. 8 vendors: No 2 vendor: is fun and enjoyable
Per case 3-Trusting to
Negative reasons: 5 vendor: application is very
1. Women like to see By subscription important
closes physically. 2 vendor: Testing
2. Women like a short period
haggling. and then
3. Copying our best choosing the
selling models by method
our competitors
12. FRAMING AND REFRAMING OUR THINKING IN
CUSTOMER SECTION (OAP ADDED)
In this section we have not any important
problem.
We found some new extra services that
customers would like to pay for.
Some of them were thought that its a
replacement of physical shopping, but this
product is a complementary service, does not
compete with other types of shopping.
Security of application is important
13. FRAMING AND REFRAMING OUR THINKING IN
CUSTOMER SECTION (OAP ADDED)
Adding new opportunities: choosing
Jewelries, bags, shoes and ... Can also be
added to this service.
14. FRAMING AND REFRAMING OUR THINKING
VENDOR SECTION
There are 3 main problem in this section that are
new for us:
Problem 1: How can vendors trust this service?
Answer: Where as this is a freemium service, vendors loose
anything when using our service so we can encourage them to
try it once.
Problem 2: Women like haggling
Answer:
Needs for haggling arises when customers do not rely on
product prices, where as this system helps to moderate
prices.
This product is a complementary service, does not compete
with other types of shopping. This product empowers
shopping.