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Jan 17, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
#Startups think of the value prop as the next thing you say after the attention grabber.

It's something like: “We help (person) in the (industry) solve (pain/need) by (benefit). We work with (customer) who has (results)"

But value prop is actually a much deeper concept👇
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Of the all the elements, an early-stage #startup customer value proposition is without question the most important. 👇
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Jan 17, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Personality traits have a statistically significant relationship with your #startups valuation outcome:

Not charisma
Not consensus builder
Not control freak
Not headstrong
Not introv
Not judgmental
Not overconfident
Not perfectionist
Not resilient
Not risk averse
Yes methodical Above is a from a study by Tom Eisenman from HBS, he adds an important note "While some of the attributes of founders listed above had a statistically significant relationship with valuation outcomes in bivariate analysis, none of them were statistically significant predictors in
Jan 15, 2022 9 tweets 2 min read
After 10+ years in sales these are the best ways I know of to map and visualise a value proposition: The Classic, Hierarchy, Time, Portfolio 👇👇👇 1/ The Classic

The classic view is the Alex Osterwalder view.

Two circles, 3 slices:

Circle 1 - Customer Profile

is your belief about addressing the jobs, pains and gains are that really matter to customers.

Circle 2 - Value map

is how you can actually intend to do that.