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The Simple Shapes of Customer Stories

Leanstack

Understanding the basic shapes of your customer stories can help you better understand your customers and uncover new opportunities for innovation (problems worth solving). The best way to uncover these customer stories is not through surveys, focus groups, problem validation interviews (customer, do you have this problem?),

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The Problem With Problems

Leanstack

As promised, she had sent him an extensive list of resources for navigating the problem/solution fit stage. The instructions say to start with the Customer and Problem boxes, but these are the boxes that stump Steve the most. He beams as he discovers that over 85% of the respondents ranked his top problem as a “must-have”.

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My New Project — Unpacking the Innovator’s Gift

Leanstack

But while rapid experimentation is key for idea validation, success is often predicated on either starting with a good idea in the first place, or managing to pivot a bad idea into a good idea in the face of failure. But these approaches are still vulnerable to the Innovator’s Bias where you simply ask: “What problem could my solution solve?”

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Running Lean - 10th Anniversary Edition

Leanstack

How do I run problem interviews around desire-driven products like video games or fashion? While the book answered some questions, I was faced with a barrage of challenging follow-on questions like: How can I get my investors (and stakeholders) to buy into my idea with just a Lean Canvas?

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The Problem With Problems

Leanstack

As promised, she had sent him an extensive list of resources for navigating the problem/solution fit stage. The instructions say to start with the Customer and Problem boxes, but these are the boxes that stump Steve the most. He beams as he discovers that over 85% of the respondents ranked his top problem as a “must-have”.

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How To Write a Book in 45 Days

Matthew May

The problem was that under ordinary circumstances, the publisher would take a year to get the book out. We need the script November 1.”. I know from experience that a tightly scripted outline doesn’t work for me, for the simple reason that what actually emerges on the page impacts my direction. Crazy, right? So I said, “No way.

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Don’t Start With an MVP

Leanstack

Competition helps validate a market and most first movers really have a disadvantage, not an advantage. At least, not at the beginning… They care about solutions that solve their immediate problems. You need to find the smallest solution that solves a big enough customer problem and deliver that.” Steve asks. “In Steve inquires.