Distinctions

What is Customer Discovery?

  • Answers: “Do we have the right customer, problem, and market?”
  • The disciplined practice of turning “I think customers want X” into “here is the evidence that customers actually have this problem and respond this way”.

Lines of Inquiry

  • Customer Discovery Distinctions
    • What Is Customer Discovery?
    • What is Not Customer Discovery?
  • Customer Discovery System
    • Zooming Out: Larger Systems Containing Customer Discovery
    • Zooming In: Parts of Customer Discovery
  • Customer Discovery Relationships
    • What Common Failure Modes Emerge When Applying Customer Discovery?
    • What Frictions are Addressed by Customer Discovery?
    • What Parallel Interventions Exist Alongside Customer Discovery?
  • Perspectives on Customer Discovery