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Thanks - I agree that balance is really important. Also, in many cases - especially where the founder is a user - intuition can be a key early driver of succes

• beat 10y ago
  Absolutely agree. I'm a "scratching my own itch" founder, and building a product based on years of doing the job of my target users. "Scientific method" isn't terribly useful for me as I build the initial product. On the other hand, I don't necessarily know what this technology is going to mean to end users. They're going to find problems to solve that I didn't even imagine. As we're closing in on a beta, I'm doing demo/interviews as often as I can (a couple of times a week at this point), and seeing where their minds run. As William Gibson said, the street finds its own uses for things. Once we get the product in the hands of real customers, it'll be far easier to start taking measurements and figuring out what to work on from there. But for now, intuition is the only tool I have.
  • mwseibel 10y ago
    This is one of the reasons why YC pushes people to launch MVPs so quickly - the speed of learning is much faster when the product is in customer's hands.