Where to Play: 3 Steps For Discovering Your Most Valuable Market Opportunities, 1st edition

Published by FT Publishing International (September 27, 2017) © 2018

  • Marc Gruber
  • Sharon Tal
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Choosing the right market for your innovation is the biggest, and trickiest, question for innovators. Research has shown that all too often entrepreneurs don’t spend enough time identifying and researching their market opportunities – instead they jump at the first opportunity that looks good, and fail to properly evaluate and leverage other opportunities. These common mistakes means that you often choose the wrong market or lock yourself into one specific direction.

Where to Play helps you to set a promising strategy, by giving a clear, structured and practical framework - the Market Opportunity Navigator- to better identify, evaluate and focus on the right market opportunities. With three dedicated and reusable worksheets covering:

  • Market Opportunity Set – assess your core strengths and identify which market opportunities exist for your business
  • Attractiveness Map – evaluate your market opportunities to reveal the most attractive option for focus
  • Agile Focus Strategy – create a strategic plan for your chosen market opportunity that keeps you open-minded and agile

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  • 1 Overview
  • 1.1 Are you running in the right direction?
  • 1.2 The Market Opportunity Navigator in a nutshell
  • 2 The Market Opportunity Navigator: Three steps for discovering your most valuable market opportunities
  • 2.1 Market Opportunity Set
  • 2.2 Attractiveness Map
  • 2.3 Agile Focus Dartboard
  • 3 Implications and additional benefits
  • 3.1 Implications of the Agile Focus Strategy
  • 3.2 Ongoing use of the Navigator
  • 3.3 Using the Market Opportunity Navigator with other business tools
  • 4 Beyond start-ups: 
  • 4.1 Established firms
  • 4.2 Investors
  • 4.3 Technology Transfer Offices
  • 4.4 Educators and Accelerators
  • Epilogue: The Navigator’s Navigator
  • Worksheets
  • Thank you note
  • Index

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