Startup Lesson: Pulling The Ripcord to Fail Fast

Blog on July 2nd, 2010 3 Comments

Pollenizer was approached Chris Gray in June to run a focus workshop for a web business Chris had founded (working title ‘Pledgespace’). In the first half of the 4 hour workshop we worked on customer discovery (micro-segments, customer values, creating 10 X value). We iterated on this process to create a focused customer development plan. [...]

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Satisfaction vs Not Dissatisfying: A Tale of Two Continuums

Blog on March 15th, 2010 1 Comment

There isn’t just satisfaction and dissatisfaction, there’s non-satisfaction and non-dissatisfaction too. It’s important to know the difference. I did some research once on bank customers and found out that they weren’t hoping for satisfaction, just no dissatisfaction. And it really made me think. Some things satisfy; Food Entertainment Travel Sports Friends Dancing Some web businesses [...]

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