Resources

Want to go further?

Everything worth your time on the question: Is this a mission, or a preference?

← Back to the session

TRY · 10 MIN

Demand Evidence Ladder

TAIU

Grade what you actually have.

Grades demand evidence from encouragement up to money paid.

Try it
Was this useful?

READ · BOOK

Governing the Commons

Elinor Ostrom

Field evidence that ordinary groups do organise themselves successfully, under identifiable conditions. The counterweight to assuming nobody will ever care enough to act together.

Read more
Was this useful?

READ · BOOK

The Four Steps to the Epiphany

Steve Blank

The origin of the argument that facts about customers live outside the building. Useful precisely because it is unglamorous about how much of early belief turns out to be wrong.

Read more
Was this useful?

READ · BOOK

The Logic of Collective Action

Mancur Olson

Explains why people who genuinely share an interest still do not act on it. If you are waiting for others to care enough to turn up, this is the most useful uncomfortable book available.

Read more
Was this useful?

READ · BOOK

The Mom Test

Rob Fitzpatrick

A short, practical book about asking questions that cannot be answered with encouragement. If people keep telling you your idea is great, read it before you build anything.

Read more
Was this useful?

Recommended by the TAIU community

What helped you?

If you've read, watched, listened to or tried something that helped you think about this differently, we'd like to hear about it.

We review recommendations before sharing them with the community.