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Industry<br />

The goal of this section is to illustrate the opportunity and how you are going to capture that<br />

opportunity. Before you can develop your plot and illustrate a theme, you need to provide a setting or<br />

context for your story. A useful framework for visualizing the opportunity is Timmons‟s Model of<br />

Opportunity Recognition. 6 Using the “3 Ms” helps quantify an idea and assess how strong an<br />

opportunity the idea is.<br />

First, examine Market demand. If the market is growing at 20% or better, the opportunity is more<br />

exciting. Second, we look at Market size and structure. A market that is currently $50 million with $1<br />

billion potential is attractive. This often is the case in emerging markets, those that appear poised for<br />

rapid growth and have the potential to change how we live and work. For example, the PC, disk drive,<br />

and computer hardware markets of the 1980s were very hot. Many new companies were born and rode

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