Chapter 02

Find out whether your business idea pays off

Before the logo, before the Instagram account, before hiring anyone.

1 min read · 3 of 5

This chapter was written in Portuguese. Below is what it covers, in English. To read it in full, switch the site to Português in the menu.

This chapter is about testing the idea before spending money on it. It walks through analyzing whether your market is viable: how big it is, who is already there, what they charge and whether there is room for one more. Then it puts the business plan back where it belongs, as a working document rather than paperwork, and ends with a simplified map you can fill in by hand, page by page.

The point of the chapter is simple: knowing the size of the market is the first step to not losing before the game starts.

What is inside - Analyze whether your market is viable - Have a business plan - A simplified map

The path

First the book, then the workshop

Encontre um MEIo explains the method: plan, price and sell. The workshop puts it to work in four hours, with the three tools. Whoever goes through both gets much more out of Marcas da Empatia, which comes next.