Talk To Customers: Customer Discovery For Founders (ASPIRE)

Customer discovery is the founder-led practice of directly engaging real customers, partners, and suppliers outside your office to convert assumptions into firsthand facts. It is primary research you do yourself — interviews, observation, conversation — not a survey you outsource or a feature list you imagine. (Concentrating force on a winnable market.)

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Derived from: Talk To Customers: Customer Discovery For Founders (ASPIRE)T1

Ordered tasks (6) — this is what a project auto-creates

#1Customer Discovery / Getting Out of the BuildingHighTo Do
Use the core discipline of customer discovery: leaving your desk to gather firsthand facts from the people who will decide whether your business exists.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 0 days after project start · takes 14 days
#2Hypothesis & Assumption TestingLowTo Do
Convert the vague beliefs discovery surfaces into falsifiable hypotheses and test the riskiest ones before you spend money building.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 14 days after project start · takes 3 days
#3Validated Learning & Risk ReductionLowTo Do
Define what counts as real learning — knowledge earned by observing behavior — and how to make each test measurably reduce your uncertainty.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 17 days after project start · takes 3 days
#4Iteration & PivotLowTo Do
Clarifies the difference between iterating on the current course and pivoting to a new one, and how validated learning tells you which move the evidence demands.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 20 days after project start · takes 3 days
#5Market Focus / Beachhead TargetingLowTo Do
Why concentrating all your resources on one bounded, dominable segment is what makes discovery and testing possible at all.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 23 days after project start · takes 3 days
#6Earlyvangelist / Early Adopter EngagementLowTo Do
Identifies the earlyvangelist — the visionary buyer inside your beachhead who feels the pain acutely enough to buy an unfinished product — and shows you how to spot and engage them.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 26 days after project start · takes 3 days