xvi, 272 pages : 21 cm Disciplined Entrepreneurship offers a comprehensive, integrated, and proven step-by-step approach to creating innovative, highly successful products Includes bibliographical references and index Six themes of the 24 steps. Getting started ; Market segmentation ; Select a Beachhead Market ; Build an end user profile ; Calculate the total addressable market (TAM) size for the beachhead market ; Profile the persona for the beachhead market ; Full life cycle use case ; High-level product specification ; Quantify the value proposition ; Identify your next 10 customers ; Define your core ; Chart your competitive position ; Determine the customer's decision-making unit (DMU) ; Map the process to acquire a paying customer ; Calculate the total addressable market size for follow-on markets ; Design a business model ; Set your pricing framework ; Calculate the lifetime value (LTV) of an acquired customer ; Map the sales process to acquire a customer ; Calculate the cost of customer acquisition (COCA) ; Identify key assumptions ; Define the minimum viable business product (MVBP) ; Show that "the dogs will eat the dog food" ; Develop a product plan -- Postlude : A business is more than 24 steps