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Talking to Humans: Customer Discovery 101
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Talking to Humans:
Customer
Discovery 101
Frank Rimalovski
Executive Director, NYU Entrepreneurial Institute
Managing Director, NYU Innovation Venture Fund
Adjunct Professor, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
Instructor, National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps
May 13, 2015
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Goals of Customer Discovery
1. (In)validate problem/solution fit
2. (In)validate business model
component hypotheses
3. Begin to identify & test Minimum
Viable Product (MVP)
u NOT to get statistical relevance, but
pattern recognition to get insight
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What do you want to learn?
u Do not sell! No demos! No presentations!
u Get stories, not speculation
u Ask open-ended questions
u Ask why? Then why? They why again!
u Create a guide (not a script)
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How do you find interview subjects?
u At least one degree of separation
u Make referrals happen
u Get creative…recruiting hacks
u Fish where the fish are…
u …In the wild
u Promise to be brief
u Play the student/researcher card
u Thoughts on enterprise customers
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How to ensure an effective interview?
u Beware of confirmation bias
u Do it in person, one at a time
u Get subjects to tell a story
u Look for solution hacks
u Understand their priority
u Follow your nose & drill down
u Listen and STFU!
u Have someone take notes
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Pro Tips: Students/teams
u Practice, practice, practice
u Don’t start with your dream customer
u Flatter subjects
u Be transparent
u Follow up/stay in touch
u Write up key insights right away
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Pro Tips: Instructors/educators
u Do exercises & practice before hand
u Hold teams accountable to >100 interviews
u Get the class/cohort to help one another
u Make them publish interview summaries
u Read & critique their summaries
u Keep them focused on the problem, not
the solution
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