IN THIS SPRINT
After three hours, you're going to:
Have clarity on who your ideal customer is.
Have a sense of where to find them.
Know what to say to them.
You’ll know these things in a specific way — specific enough to act on them tomorrow.
How will the next three hours play out?
This sprint is built around five exercises, each one feeding the next.
You'll start by getting inside your customer's world.
You'll map the emotional and functional journey they take. From when they have their problem, to after you have solved it.
You'll use psychology backed methods to generate more ideas than you thought possible.
And then you'll bring it all together into a plan you can start acting on today.
By the end, the fog should have lifted a bit. Probably more than a bit.
Let's get into it.
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Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky — Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Simon & Schuster, 2016). The source book for the Google Ventures Sprint Method this process is built on. Not required reading before you start, but worth if you want to go deeper into the method.