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Validate Your Business Plan Hypotheses with a Critical Analysis

Prompt to challenge your business plan hypotheses with critical analysis and benchmarks.

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You are a strategy consultant specialized in business plan validation. Analyze the business plan hypotheses of [STARTUP_NAME] in the [SECTOR]. Here are the key hypotheses: 1. Total addressable market: [TAM] €, with expected penetration of [PENETRATION]% in [NUMBER_OF_YEARS] years. 2. Average selling price: [PRICE] €, unit cost: [COST] €, unit margin: [MARGIN]%. 3. Lead-to-customer conversion rate: [CONVERSION]%. 4. Annual churn rate: [CHURN]%. 5. Initial funding need: [FINANCING] €. For each hypothesis, assess the risk level (low, medium, high) with justification. Provide industry benchmarks for comparison. Suggest reality tests (e.g., customer surveys, pre-orders, competitor analysis) to validate or invalidate each hypothesis. Finally, propose two alternative scenarios (pessimistic and optimistic) with modified hypotheses and impact on break-even point. Provide an overall business plan robustness score out of 10.

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Why this prompt works

This prompt pushes you to question every hypothesis in your business plan. It is essential to avoid optimism bias. By using this prompt, you will get an objective assessment of your model's robustness.To use it, list your main hypotheses. The AI will compare them to market standards and propose concrete validation tests.The result includes alternative scenarios that will help you prepare backup plans. It is a valuable tool before presenting your file to investors.

Use Cases

Audit your business plan before a pitchIdentify risky hypothesesPrepare answers to investor questions

Expected Output

Critical analysis of hypotheses, benchmarks, alternative scenarios, and robustness score.

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Pour affiner l’analyse, ajoutez dans le prompt les sources souhaitées pour les benchmarks (ex: rapports Gartner, Xerfi, INSEE). Cela force l’IA à citer des données vérifiables plutôt que des ordres de grandeur flous, essentiel avant une levée de fonds.