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Talking to customers seems like a simple idea, but most founders find it’s one of the hardest things they have to do. Founders innately believe they understand a customers problem and just need to spend their time building a solution. We now have a half a century of data to say that belief is wrong. To build products that people want and will really use, founders first need to validate the problem/need, then understand whether their solution solves that problem (i.e. finding product/market fit). Finally to have a better chance of a viable enterprise, they need to test all the other hypotheses in their business/mission model (pricing, demand creation, revenue, costs, etc.)
Steve Blank Customer Discovery in the Time of the Covid-19 Virus
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This Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop is at the core of the Lean Startup model.
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
“We want to empower kids, and we can’t empower them as long as we’re helicoptering over them … I changed the term ‘helicopter parent’ to ‘snowplow parent,’ the kind of parent that clears the way of every obstacle.”
How to Raise Successful People - Parenting Advice From Esther Wojcicki on the Goop Podcast - Podcast Notes
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