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Test the smallest version first

Life Skills · Entrepreneurship · ages 16-18
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. Which assumption should the first test attack?

    • The office decoration budget
    • The one whose failure kills the whole idea
    • The easiest assumption to confirm

  2. What is the smallest version worth testing?

    • The tiniest version that tests the riskiest belief
    • A logo and a company name
    • The full product with every feature

  3. A test that cannot fail still teaches a lot about the idea.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. What belongs in a first one-page business plan?

    • The founder's life story in detail
    • Customer, problem, offer, costs, and how money arrives
    • Ten years of exact profit forecasts

  5. How do you test demand without building the product?

    • Build the full factory first
    • Ask friends whether the logo looks nice
    • Talk to users, presell, or deliver a manual version by hand

  6. Why keep fixed costs near zero until demand speaks?

    • So every experiment is cheap to run and cheap to kill
    • So the business looks bigger to visitors
    • Because spending is banned for new founders

  7. After a failed test, what is the right next move?

    • Record what it taught and design the next small test
    • Quit business forever and delete everything
    • Repeat the identical test and hope harder

  8. A founder loves their solution and ignores weak sales data. Which habit would have saved them?

    • Working longer hours on the same solution
    • Hiding the data from the team
    • Falling in love with the problem, not the solution
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Answer key

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  1. The one whose failure kills the whole idea · Test whether anyone wants the product before logos or features.
  2. The tiniest version that tests the riskiest belief · Small is a strategy: learn the risky truth before building.
  3. False · Without a failure condition every outcome looks like success.
  4. Customer, problem, offer, costs, and how money arrives · One page forces clarity that long documents hide.
  5. Talk to users, presell, or deliver a manual version by hand · Real behaviour beats opinions every time.
  6. So every experiment is cheap to run and cheap to kill · Borrow tools, trade skills, and run from what you own.
  7. Record what it taught and design the next small test · Failed tests that kill weak ideas early save months for stronger ones.
  8. Falling in love with the problem, not the solution · Loving the problem lets evidence change your mind safely.
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