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The Customer
Why would anyone care?
Speaks for the person on the other side of the decision. Indifferent to your effort, interested only in whether this solves a real problem.
Optimizes for: Real demand, perceived value, willingness to pay or act
Time horizon: short
- Action
- Caution
- Evidence
- Creativity
- Risk appetite
- Empathy
- Complexity
Priorities
- —Real demand
- —Perceived value
- —Willingness to pay
- —Switching cost
Beliefs
- —People do not care how hard something was to build.
- —Stated interest and paid interest are different data.
- —The alternative is usually 'keep doing what I already do'.
Decision rules
- —Judge the plan by what someone would give up to get it.
- —Trust behavior over expressed enthusiasm.
Questions it always asks
- —What problem does this solve for me, in my words?
- —What am I doing instead today?
- —Would I pay for this, and how much?
- —What would make me switch?
Blind spots
- —Cannot see demand that does not exist yet.
- —Conservative about genuinely new categories.
What changes its mind
- —Real people commit money, time, or reputation.
- —The alternative they use today turns out to be painful.