Custom Development Customer Design Product 
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 6, 2011
I’m going to take that thought out into the field and validate it with my customers." I’ve spoken to dozens of customers, I have a validated customer persona, built an MVP to test key behavioral hypotheses, and the data doesn’t back what you’re saying." " One was an enterprise software product.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers. We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features.
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SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 19, 2012
I was talking with an early-stage founder who has a product vision and wants to get it built. He wanted to get input from me on what he's doing, and he wants to begin to ask developers what it would take to build his product. Me : Product definition, use cases, feature list, wireframes, comps, really whatever you have.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 13, 2013
I did have the wherewithal to visit potential customers and try to understand the pain points that I thought could be solved with our solution. Invariably your first efforts at product won’t quite hit the mark – and this is OK. Unique Selling Proposition or USP is the things that your product is uniquely positioned to solve.
Tech Zulu Event
NOVEMBER 6, 2012
These two ads showed how disconnected from their customers these once industry leaders have become. Sadly this is just a single example of what is happening to thousand of companies that are not listening to their respective customers. What IMVU thought was game changing technology was not why customers used the software.
InfoChachkie
APRIL 16, 2012
The Lean Startup approach dictates that successful customer development is an iterative process. By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically. Preaching What You Live. One of the best students I ever had. Enter Eric Ries .
Tech Zulu Event
FEBRUARY 8, 2013
It is also for established businesses that are working on a new product launch and have hit some roadblocks they need to flesh out. Customer Development. Most entrepreneurs think of some kind of product and then go and try to find someone to buy it,” said Risenhoover. The Flipped Classroom Approach.
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