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Start shaping your idea! In this section you will find a variety of resources, educational templates and tools that will help you both in the process of developing your idea and in the first steps before and during the launch of your product or service.
SWOT Analysis
This template will be useful to analyze the competitive positions of your idea in the market and to develop strategies. In the SWOT analysis we are evaluating the following:
Strengths (internal – talks about your idea) This refers to the strengths of your idea and the ways in which it can compete within the market.
Weaknesses (internal – talks about your idea) This refers to possible disadvantages of your idea that could become an obstacle when you go into the market.
Opportunities (external – talks about the market) You understand the opportunities offered by the market you’re about to enter and from which your idea can benefit.
Threats (external – talks about the market) We refer to those threats that may act as obstacles in the market you will be competing.
Empathy Interviews
This template will help you organize your questions and summarize what you have learned. These interviews will help you understand your customers and their needs. You will also be able to identify trends that will validate your idea.
Empathy Map
The empathy map helps you to better understand the customer by analyzing their opinions and behaviors when they encounter the problem you are solving. This map gives you a perspective on what they say, feel, think and do about the problem.
Experience Map
The experience map is an alternative tool used to understand and empathize with the customers when they encounter the problem you’re trying to solve. It is divided into the “before”, “while”, and “after” of the solution process. This tool will answer the questions “what actions does our customer take”, “what does our customer think through the process” and “how does our customer feel during the process.” This tool will help you identify areas of opportunity that you can incorporate into your idea to solve the customer’s problem.
Customer Journey Map
The customer journey map is another alternative tool you have when analyzing your customer’s journey. This template is different because it gives you a more detailed perspective by dividing the journey into five parts. In each one of these you can analyze in more depth the actions taken by the customer in solving the problem they face. This template, by focusing on actions, allows you to identify many areas of opportunity.
Feedback Panel
This feedback panel is a very useful tool in the “testing” stage. In this stage, we present to the customer how our idea will be and how it will work through a prototype to validate it. The client will be answering: “what they liked”, “what was not clear to them and created confusion” and “what criticisms they have to the prototype.” This tool is used in the Design Thinking Framework and helps you develop your idea focused on the customer’s needs.
Business Model Canvas (BMC)
The Business Model Canvas is a useful tool that summarizes your business idea on a single page. The BMC is divided into nine sections that cover the value you will provide to your customer, define who your customer is, how to reach them, how and what you will need to provide value to your customer, among others. This will summarize your idea clearly and concisely.
Personalized Plan
Our sister program, Colmena66, creates a customized program for you by highlighting the organizations and others that can help you on your entrepreneurial journey.
Competitor Analysis
This tool will help you identify your direct, indirect or substitute competitors. In addition, in this template you will find a guide of questions to carry out your competitor analysis and a list of five benefits of analyzing them.
Business Models
With this tool you will be able to learn about the six types of businesses that exist in the entrepreneurial field. This will give you the opportunity to identify which one or ones work best with your idea, as well as provide a basis for you to explore other business models once you have started.
Navigating the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Navigating the entrepreneurial ecosystem is a list of ten programs available in Puerto Rico to help you in each one of the stages of your entrepreneurship from the development and validation of the idea, to the growth and internationalization of the business.
Checklist for your Website
This checklist will give you a general guide of the elements you should add when building your website, not only in Google Sites, but in any other platform.
Customer Discovery
Customer Discovery is a guide that will help you determine your ideal customer by identifying your hypothesis, defining assumptions, asking empathic questions and evaluating and adjusting.
Tools for Effective Sales
This resource will help you identify tools that you can use when creating en ecommerce website.
Comparing Social Networks
In this template, you’ll find a comparative table of the main social networks and their particular functionalities. This tool will help you to choose which are the ideal digital platforms for your business.
