Zero to One_ Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future ( PDFDrive )
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5. The Distribution Question
Do you have a way to not just create but deliver your product?
6. The Durability Question
Will your market position be defensible 10 and 20 years into the future?
7. The Secret Question
Have you identified a unique opportunity that others don’t see?
We’ve discussed these elements before. Whatever your industry, any great
business plan must address every one of them. If you don’t have good answers to
these questions, you’ll run into lots of “bad luck” and your business will fail. If
you nail all seven, you’ll master fortune and succeed. Even getting five or six
correct might work. But the striking thing about the cleantech bubble was that
people were starting companies with zero good answers—and that meant hoping
for a miracle.
It’s hard to know exactly why any particular cleantech company failed, since
almost all of them made several serious mistakes. But since any one of those
mistakes is enough to doom your company, it’s worth reviewing cleantech’s
losing scorecard in more detail.