December 5

Understanding Customer Validation

Anastasia eloquently sums up the main benefit of Customer Validation as helping you “avoid building a product that no one wants.” This stage is about building and refining a business model and validating assumptions about your customers before too much money is spent. These include assumptions about the market, the existence and weight of the problem and how impactful your product is/will be. The process for Validation includes defining your hypotheses and testing them in various channels. Perhaps even more importantly it includes generating real monetary transactions, i.e., selling your product.

Paul McAvinchey

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For over 20 years, Paul has been building and collaborating on digital products with fast-growing startups and global brands, including AOL and WMS Gaming. Currently, he's a co-founder of Product Collective, a worldwide community of product people. Members collaborate on in the exclusive Member Hub, meet at INDUSTRY: The Product Conference, listen to Rocketship.fm, learn at Product Interviews and get a weekly newsletters that includes best practices in product management. In recent years he led business development at DXY, a leading product design firm in the Midwest, and product innovation at MedCity Media, a publishing startup acquired by Breaking Media in 2015.


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