By Validating once product idea well in advance, one can build products that customers desire.
Once can create innovative products by validating and without wasting valuable resources like money and time
Unknown’s in a startup and the job of an entrepreneur is to Remove this uncertainty
Learn and Remove this uncertainty in 2 stages
Who has that problem?
How big of a problem it is?
How much they're willing to pay for the solution, in some way, shape, or form? In other words--how painful is this problem for them?
What can we create that is going to solve this specific problem?
finding out who the customers for your product are and whether the problem you believe you are solving is important to them. More formally, this step involves discovering whether the problem, product and customer hypotheses in your business plan are correct
Problem discovery case study
Solution discovery case study
The goal of this step is to build a repeatable sales road map for the sales and marketing teams that will follow later. The sales road map is the playbook of the proven and repeatable sales process that has been field-tested by successfully selling the product to early customers
One of the major outcomes of Customer Validation is a proven and tested sales road map
If you can’t find enough paying customers in the Customer Validation step, the model returns you to Customer Discovery to rediscover what customers want and will pay for
The methodology can be use to discover which marketing channel will work