The Startup Chat With Steli And Hiten

In today’s episode of The Startup Chat, Steli and Hiten talk about how founders can avoid customer development mistakes. Customer development is a four-step framework for discovering and validating the right market for your idea. It is used by founders to build the right product features that solve customers’ needs and much more. Customer development is crucial to the success of a product, therefore it has to be done the right way. In this week’s episode, Steli and Hiten dive into what  Customer development is, why it’s important, some common mistakes founders make when they do it and much more. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:00 About today’s topic. 00:35 Why this topic was chosen. 01:27 The biggest common mistake founders make. 02:56 Another common mistake founders make. 04:47 Why there are different types of product validation. 06:04 Why giving you money is a much stronger form of validation. 07:22 Another big mistakes founders make. 10:05 Why not being able to reach enough people is not an excuse. 10:44 Why y