WRKSHP/Course: Experiment Cookbook

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Course: Experiment Cookbook

Learn how to do Experiment Driven Innovation, learn to build effective experiments to get your product or startup towards Product Market Fit. Use the practical resources to get you there fast!

10 Modules

The course has 10 modules, covering experiment driven innovation, experiment design, running experiments, and interpreting the results, as well as 25 experiment recipes you can use right away. The total material in this course adds up to well over 100.000 words - the length of two full management books.

Ready to Start Experimenting?

This course will boost your experiment design and validation skills with a practical framework. After completing this course, you'll have a cookbook with over 25 ready-to-use experiment recipes to start validating right away!

💡Idea Validation

5 experiments for Idea Validation, including Exit Polls and Smoke Tests. 

❤️Problem-Solution

7 experiments to validate Problem Solution Fit, including Wizard of Oz and Landing Page experiments

💰Product-Market Fit

12 experiments to prove Product-Market Fit, including pricing experiments, pre-selling, and virals. 

🍳 25 Recipes

Includes 25 Experiment Recipes that you can tailor to your own situation with minimal effort.

🤯 Experiment Design

Learn how to design effective experiments that will get you the results you need - and what to do if they don't perform as expected.

🤖Data Analysis

Interpreting the results of your experiment can be hard. This course will give you the handholds you need to make confident decisions based on your data.

⚡️Lean Innovation

Learn all about the Build-Measure-Learn loop, validating assumptions and structured experiments.

📚Reading List

Every chapter of the course has a reading list with tons of extra material for you to explore.

🛠Tools

The course also covers tools like the Riskiest Assumption Mapper, Experiment Designer, Experiment Result Canvas and many more in detail.

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Who it's for

✅  (Aspiring) Entrepreneurs
✅  Startup Founders
✅  Executives
✅  Corporate Innovators and Intrapreneurs
✅  Small Business Owners
✅  Students

This course includes

🔑  Immediate access to all the content
📖  Digital and printable worksheets
📝  Assignments to apply your new skills
🙌  A reading list with every chapter
🛠  An introduction to 4 easy to learn tools
🏗  25 Step-by-step recipes for ready to use experiments
💡  100K words of curated and practical knowledge
🎖  Certificate of completion

What you'll learn

You'll learn how to design and run your own experiments for Idea Validation, Problem Solution Fit, and Product Market Fit, supported by visual tools, practical experiment recipes, examples, and benchmark data.

About the author

Hi! 👋 My name is Erik van der Pluijm. I'm a Generative AI addict, venture builder, startup founder, author and innovator. I have helped hundreds of companies and startups with innovation over the past 10 years.  

I have created WRKSHP because I want to help more people build amazing new startups 🚀. 

Contents

1. Introduction



Introduction
    Preview
    About this Course
      Preview
      What you'll learn
        Preview
        How to get the most out of your course
          Your Logbook
            Checklist - Before you start

              2. Why Experiments?

              The Innovator's Trap
                Exercise: Find Pivots
                  The Innovation Journey
                    Front Load your Risk
                      Avoiding the Innovator's Trap
                        Exercise: Wiring Problems
                          Reading List

                            3. Lean Innovation

                            What is Lean Innovation?
                              How do you learn? The Build-Measure-Learn Loop
                                Learn by validating your assumptions
                                  Experiments: Structured Validation
                                    The Ingredients of an Experiment
                                      Experiments and Build Measure Learn
                                        Reading List

                                          4. Selecting Experiments

                                          Types of Experiments
                                            Choose the Right Experiment
                                              A4_Cookbook_Cheatsheet.pdf
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                                              5. Designing Experiments

                                               
                                              Designing Experiments
                                                Qualitative vs Quantitative
                                                  Risky Assumptions
                                                    Exercise: Riskiest Assumption
                                                      Your Hypothesis
                                                        Specific, testable action
                                                          Positive Results
                                                            Prediction
                                                              Test subjects
                                                                How many test subjects do you need?
                                                                  Putting the hypothesis together
                                                                    Your Method
                                                                      Your Logbook
                                                                        Exercise: Reverse-Engineer an Experiment
                                                                          Exercise: Design an Experiment
                                                                            Reading List

                                                                              6. Preparing Experiments

                                                                              Preparing Experiments
                                                                                The Experiment Team
                                                                                  Finding Test Subjects
                                                                                    What does my Experiment Cost?
                                                                                      Fine tune your protocol and materials
                                                                                        Do a Dry-Run

                                                                                          7. Running Experiments

                                                                                          Running Experiments
                                                                                            Recording Results
                                                                                              What to record?
                                                                                                How to record

                                                                                                  8. Interpreting Experiment Results

                                                                                                  Interpreting Experiments
                                                                                                    Clean your data!
                                                                                                      Interpreting Qualitative Data
                                                                                                        Interpreting Quantitative Data
                                                                                                          Making Decisions
                                                                                                            Pivot or Persevere
                                                                                                              Closing the Loop: Running Multiple Experiments

                                                                                                                9. Experiments for Idea Validation

                                                                                                                • What is Idea Validation?
                                                                                                                • Practical experiment recipes
                                                                                                                Idea Validation
                                                                                                                  Preparing for your experiment
                                                                                                                    Designing Experiments for Idea Validation
                                                                                                                      Interpreting Idea Validation Experiments
                                                                                                                        Observing and Asking Questions
                                                                                                                          Exercise: Good and Bad Questions
                                                                                                                            Recipe 1: Friends & Family
                                                                                                                              Recipe 2: 'Exit Polls'
                                                                                                                                Recipe 3: Map the Problem
                                                                                                                                  Recipe 4: Online Research
                                                                                                                                    Recipe 5: Fake Button (Smoke Test)

                                                                                                                                      10. Experiments for Problem-Solution Fit

                                                                                                                                      What is Problem Solution Fit?
                                                                                                                                      What is Problem Solution Fit?
                                                                                                                                        Working towards Problem Solution Fit
                                                                                                                                          Riskiest Assumptions for Problem-Solution Fit
                                                                                                                                            (Paper) Prototyping
                                                                                                                                              How sophisticated should your prototype be?
                                                                                                                                                Fake it before you make it
                                                                                                                                                  Recipe 6: Does it Resonate
                                                                                                                                                    Recipe 7: Upvote
                                                                                                                                                      Recipe 8: Test the Competition
                                                                                                                                                        Recipe 9: Customer Journey
                                                                                                                                                          Recipe 10: Wizard of Oz
                                                                                                                                                            Recipe 11: Advertisement
                                                                                                                                                              Recipe 12: Landing Page

                                                                                                                                                                11. Experiments for Product Market Fit

                                                                                                                                                                What is Product Market Fit?
                                                                                                                                                                  How do you know you have achieved Product Market Fit?
                                                                                                                                                                    AARRR! Pirate Metrics!
                                                                                                                                                                      Steps toward Product Market Fit
                                                                                                                                                                        MVP
                                                                                                                                                                          Recipe 13: Waiting List
                                                                                                                                                                            Recipe 14: Pre-selling
                                                                                                                                                                              Recipe 15: Crowdfunding
                                                                                                                                                                                Recipe 16: Popup Store
                                                                                                                                                                                  Recipe 17: Concierge model
                                                                                                                                                                                    Recipe 18: Free drives Paid
                                                                                                                                                                                      Recipe 19: Viral Effect
                                                                                                                                                                                        Recipe 20: Network Effect
                                                                                                                                                                                          Recipe 21: Retention
                                                                                                                                                                                            Recipe 22: Pricing
                                                                                                                                                                                              Recipe 23: Raise the Price
                                                                                                                                                                                                Recipe 24: Beta / Soft Launch
                                                                                                                                                                                                  Recipe 25: MVP Test

                                                                                                                                                                                                    12. Tools

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Tool: Riskiest Assumption Canvas
                                                                                                                                                                                                      Tool: The Experiment Canvas
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Tool: Experiment Outcome Canvas
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Tool: Pirate Metrics Canvas
                                                                                                                                                                                                            A4 Riskiest Assumption Canvas.pdf
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                                                                                                                                                                                                            A1 Riskiest Assumption Canvas.pdf
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                                                                                                                                                                                                            A4 Experiment Canvas.pdf
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                                                                                                                                                                                                            A1 Experiment Canvas.pdf
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                                                                                                                                                                                                            A4 Experiment Outcome Canvas.pdf
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                                                                                                                                                                                                            A1 Pirate Metrics Canvas.pdf
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                                                                                                                                                                                                            A4 Pirate Metrics Canvas.pdf
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