Brainstorming 5 best and worst startup ideas

1. Assignment

1.1. Work with your initial team to brainstorm your 5 best and worst startup ideas.

1.2. Including one (or maybe 2) sentences for each part of the business model

1.2.1. Customer segment

1.2.2. Value Proposition

1.2.3. Key Partners

1.2.4. Key Activities

1.2.5. Key Resources

1.2.6. Customer Relationships and Marketing

1.2.7. Channels

1.2.8. Revenue streams

1.2.9. Cost structure

2. Worst ideas

2.1. That could never work or are just silly

2.2. Selling ice to people in a very cold climate, such as Alaska. Or selling tourism space flights to Mars.

3. Best ideas

3.1. Start with problems or needs that you personally have experienced and know well.

3.2. talk to people you know well about their needs/problems that you could try to solve.

4. Purpose

4.1. Practice summarizing the idea briefly in two sentences and to practice thinking about the aspects of the business model.

5. Required

5.1. For each idea you should fill in the blanks in the following two sentences.

5.1.1. Sentence #1

 For (target customer)
 who (statement of the need or opportunity), the (product/service name) is a (product/service category) 
that (statement of benefit).



5.1.2. Sentence #2
 Unlike (primary competitive alternative),
 our product (statement of primary differentiation).