{"id":1505,"date":"2011-10-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2011\/10\/25\/1445\/"},"modified":"2011-10-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T22:00:00","slug":"1445","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2011\/10\/25\/1445\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Bear Live: Talk to thirty people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Cohen in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.asmartbear.com\/sb-live-1.html\">Smart Bear Live!<\/a> podcast, on talking to thirty people before you start building a prototype, to find out who would buy it and what they&#8217;d want you to build (starting at 1:33:58):<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;It sounds so easy \u2013 &#8222;I&#8217;ll just go talk to them and discover some stuff.&#8220; It&#8217;s really hard and most people don&#8217;t do it. Like I&#8217;m telling you this, and if I had to bet, I would bet \u2013 definitely, like, very good odds \u2013 that you won&#8217;t talk to anyone. And the next best odds is you&#8217;ll talk to maybe three people and then make a decision one way or another. Neither of those is right. But that&#8217;s what most people do. [\u2026] You tell them to go talk to thirty people. They hear me say &#8222;thirty people&#8220; and they&#8217;re like &#8222;eh&#8220; and they&#8217;ll talk to three people and they sort of make up their mind. That&#8217;s not it! It&#8217;s thirty people! Not three, thirty!&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Cohen in the Smart Bear Live! podcast, on talking to thirty people before you start building a prototype, to find out who would buy it and what they&#8217;d want you to build (starting at 1:33:58): &#8222;It sounds so easy \u2013 &#8222;I&#8217;ll just go talk to them and discover some stuff.&#8220; It&#8217;s really hard and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}