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There are a lot of CEO’s that use the Steve Jobs argument to justify their approach of thinking they know what customers want. Chances are you are not really b
by goshx 8y ago
There are a lot of CEO’s that use the Steve Jobs argument to justify their approach of thinking they know what customers want.
Chances are you are not really building a product that is reinventing a market and creating new solutions for previously non existing problems, like the iPhone. Then you fall into the hole of thinking you can imagine how people want to solve a well known problem and end up finding out later that, well, you were wrong.
I’d urge people to stop thinking they can pull off a Steve Jobs.
- cardimart 8y ago"creating new solutions for previously non existing problems, like the iPhone." I have a problem when I hear things like that. The problems are always there, the needs are always there. They're just satisfied better by the new technology. But the latent needs were there to begin with.
- goshx 8y agoApps marketplace for cellphones?
- Razengan 8y ago“Pulling off a Steve Jobs” is not really about knowing what customers what – most of the time it will be faster horses – but putting your passion into what YOU recognize a sore lack of. “”Market research”” won’t tell you what’s missing, only existing trends. “Vision” on the other hand is identifying a need for something that doesn’t exist yet. You don’t need to be Steve Jobs to do that, but if you aren’t charismatic (or rich) enough to convince a bunch of other people to work on your vision with/for you, you may only be make what you can make on your own. Which is why I stick to my personal hobby projects. :)