The Startup Chat 152: How to Conduct Great Customer Development Interviews

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Customer development is crucial to any startup business. Customer development tells a founder what their customer base really needs. The best tool to get this information is customer interviews. On…

Unfiltered insights and actionable advice straight from the trenches of startup and business life. Customer development is crucial to any startup business. Customer development tells a founder what their customer base really needs. The best tool to get this information is customer interviews. On today’s The Startup Chat we discuss how to conduct a customer interview. We also explain why founders need to do customer development interviews. Customer development is not about validating an idea. It is solely for the purpose of knowing the customer and coming up with the best solution to their need. We are going to tell you how to get the ball rolling and what it is you’re looking for in these…from thestartupchat.com

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