If You Build It Will They Come?: Three Steps to Test and Validate Any Market Opportunity - Hardcover

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Rob Adams is a strategy consultant and venture capitalist, and on the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business. He has been a founder, founding investor, or involved with the IPO or merger and acquisition of more than forty companies, involving the launch of more than 100 new products, representing more than a billion dollars of investment. He is the author of A Good Hard Kick in the Ass: Basic Training for Entrepreneurs. He has been covered in BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fortune, Money, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, as well as on Bloomberg Radio, Public Television, and National Public Radio's Marketplace program. For more information, please visit www.drrobadams.com

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Praise for IF YOU BUILD IT WILL THEY COME?

"This book will force any entrepreneur or intrapreneur to take a brutally honest look at their planned product development and launch?before it's too late."?Curt Jackson, Director, Global Technology & Capital Management, Toppan Photomasks, Inc.

"Taking an idea or product to market is expensive and prone to failure. When we had to reconstruct our business, we rigorously adhered to Rob Adams's Market Validation process to test our new ideas. We avoided organization-killing mistakes and created products and services that our clients need, value, and are willing to pay for. The process outlined in this book will save you immeasurable amounts of time, money, and wasted effort."?Eliza Evans, President and CEO, InCenter

"Whether you're sitting in your garage trying to be the next Google, or trying to extend your Fortune 1000 company's product line, this book will show you how to develop products that customers actually want."?Mark McLain, CEO and cofounder, Sailpoint

"Lots of people launch new products; few earn meaningful revenues. What do those few have in common? The clear focus and discipline it takes to excel at something truly difficult. If You Build It Will They Come? lays out the not-so-obvious basics of market-focused product development and launches."?Bruce Roberson, retired director, McKinsey & Company

"I've been helping companies for twenty years with the kinds of Market Validation programs described in If You Build It, Will They Come? Adams understands the power of market guidance and the practical aspects of collecting market input. This book will give you a competitive advantage during the product design phase, when it has the most impact, while avoiding costly mistakes."?Peter Simon, President, Simon Management

"Adams has assembled the collective wisdom of countless product launches, executive interviews, and venture capital perspectives on how companies can efficiently deliver market-oriented products. His conclusions are compelling, but obvious; yet few companies actually do it." ?John Sibley Butler, Director, The Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship and The Institute for Innovation, Creativity, and Capital, The University of Texas at Austin

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Why do 65 percent of new products fail? In today's hyper-competitive market, companies too often misjudge demand. They either perform too little of the necessary market research, misuse the data they do collect, or neglect to integrate their research into product development. Amazingly, many companies get their market insights during or after their product's failure. It doesn't have to be this way!

If You Build It Will They Come lays out a complete system for objectively assessing a market before you develop a product or any business idea. Whether you're in a tiny startup or a major corporation, venture capitalist and business professor Rob Adams's proven Market Validation process enables you to maximize your investment dollars while minimizing your risks.

If You Build It Will They Come helps you execute the essential actions for any new product offering. Using this book's "Ready, Aim, Fire" framework, you'll:

• Evaluate product ideas

• Gather the right information on competitors

• Find and understand your target audience

• Match product features to market demand

• Determine pricing

• Utilize experts and data

• Prepare the market for your product

• Bring your product to market

Successful product launches often look easy in retrospect when they actually require a phenomenal amount of effort and planning?and you usually don't read about the many failures. Filled with real-life examples, case studies, and practical tips, If You Build It Will They Come gives you tested tools to ensure that your work ends in a successful launch. So before you build it, get this book?and watch customers come running!