Guerilla Test Your Ideas

Here is Mark Pincus, CEO and Founder of gaming company Zynga, talking about what he calls “Ghetto” testing, but which I prefer to call Guerilla.

1. Imagine this feature or product is built. How would you describe your product in five words? How would you market it?
2. Put up a landing page or MVP (minimum viable product) — even a survey — to test that idea.
3. A/B test or “flow test” — drive traffic to that test (you may need to pay for that, boy oh boy!)

This is very lean startup thinking — ME LIKEY!

Another related link (and these are both coming from Steve Blank’s ‘The Lean Launch Pad’ class)…

Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008)

Modify! –> Measure! –> Iterate!

That slideshare preso goes into some great details on the non-business-ey business model.