Early-stage founders should run structured validation experiments: define a hypothesis, commit to talking with a set number of customers over a quarter, then decide whether to pivot, tweak, or refine. This framework beats the uncertainty of winging it.
times, you know, we, we talk with a lot of kind of early-stage companies that they're like, am I pivoting or am I chickening out? You know what I mean? Like, and they're sort of like torn between, well, did I really get enough feedback from the customer to know that's the direction that they want? And they, they get sort of in their heads about it. And, and we see that again, if you define a system or we're going to talk to this many people and we're gonna, uh, you know, we're Work on this hypothesis for this amount of time, and then we're going to have a check-in. Gives them so much more peace of mind to say, hey, this quarter we know what our marching orders are. We know what we're trying to do. We're going to do it at the end of the quarter. There'll be time to evaluate, hey, should we pivot or should we tweak a little bit or should we refine that customer that we're going after or that solution that we're providing? But folks that don't have that system.
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