Afraid Of Speaking With Your Customers? You Will FAIL..!
https://maven.com/p/455be8
You have a startup idea and you believe everyone will love it. The Truth is; you will (with 95% chance) FAIL if you do not validate your startup idea with your potential CUSTOMERS.
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Thank you.
Probably the most important tool an entrepreneur should learn is how to validate their idea before they spend money on it.
Unfortunately, it's a lot of work. And if you aren't well versed in it, it's even more work. With a lot of risk of doing it wrong. Detrimentally wrong actually. It's a lot easier for people to ignore it and just build. Unfortunately.
@MrKelly Yes, I agree with you. This attitude is quite unfortunate. I see many talented founders fail just because they ignore their customers. In fact, idea validation does not need to mean a lot of work. It just needs to be a structured process. This is what we are sharing with our students: https://maven.com/seven-fit-framework/validate-your-startup-idea-in-6-weeks.
Listening to customers, understanding their problems, and then shaping up the solutions to solve those problems is the way to go.
Totally agree, As user-researcher and product-designer I find this always an interesting topic to discuss and have always been curious to understand why founders become stuck.
We're currently building a product that aims to assist early-stage founders with user-research and product validation. From your experience what are the common pitfalls founders face in this process?
Hey @LiamL, good luck with your product!
I see many pitfalls where founders get stuck;
Founder's ego is what usually gets in the way:
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-to-not-let-your-creators-ego-get-in-your-way
A considerably high percentage of founders have a technical background. For some, they choose to become a coder or a builder in the first place because they are shy. They do not actually want to have personal contact. Speaking with customers means deep human contact which these people are usually trying to avoid.
With many no-code builders, MVP tools, and similar stuff, it is very easy to build a product nowadays. So some founders choose to "test" their ideas rather than "validate" them. But in fact, a business is all about creating value for the customer. If you do not know your customer's problem, you cannot build a product that solves that problem.