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Choosing & Sustaining Product Ideas w/ Colleen Schnettler
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Challenges of Product Validation and the Importance of User Feedback
Product validation through pre-selling and customer conversations may not truly indicate product-market fit until the product is in users' hands and they are faced with the decision to use it. Even with pre-selling and positive customer feedback, many customers may not become long-term users. The speaker emphasizes the importance of paying attention to users and user feedback, citing a quote by Paul Graham about the tendency to prioritize personal vision over user input. Despite having a vision based on customers' dissatisfaction with an existing product, the speaker's product did not succeed without shipping a tangible solution.
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