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Love the comment but didn't a great man once say "customers don't know what they want till you show it to them"
by OnyeaboAduba 13y ago
Love the comment but didn't a great man once say "customers don't know what they want till you show it to them"
- yurylifshits 13y agoThat's implicit demand
- OnyeaboAduba 13y ago"Implicit demand" by nature can be used by every entreprenuer for most ideas.
- tptacek 13y agoHence, "show traction".
- steeve 13y agoI guess this is the reason why you have to show traction.
- brandnewlow 13y agoExactly, if they'd had 15 customers paying $50/month and were adding 5 more each week, that'd be a very different story. Even if the product at that point was just Matlab-in-the-cloud, those customers could tell them what features they're looking for to help the team make the product unique.
- OnyeaboAduba 13y agoThe site having no traction is not the reason they did not get accepted. In the YC application they "explicitly" ask if you have customers. Just a guess here but Im thinking PG and company read their app before they invited them for an interview .
- loumf 13y agoBe careful with how to interpret that. They know their problems, but not the solutions. Ask them about problems that they know they want solved.