Timothy Stanley: I would say that when I first started sort of forcing both my team and our clients to start before solution hypotheses start with problems. And it takes like you have to like flush out the system before people are like, okay, I now, I now of sane mind and can actually describe what a problem is because we are so solution oriented. We so want cognitive closure," he says. "I feel like any problem that we start like tech first, especially is just, I remember there was a retailer that we were potentially going to be doing some business with and they stated that their goal was a thousand personalizations"
Do you ever feel like the experiments and analyses you're working on feel a little bit like a trip on a hamster wheel — properly grounded in hypotheses, perhaps, but not necessarily moving the business forward like you'd hoped? On this episode, Matty Wishnow, the author of Listening for Growth: What Startups Need the Most but Hear the Least, joined Moe, Tim, and Val for a discussion about why that may be, and how reframing the work to focus first and foremost on identifying problems (and unmet opportunities) can be useful! For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.