Re:Startup Hypothesis: Do users want to be social with coffee?
by sdwrage on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @07:55PM
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Yeah that is why I said it is too early to tell that it is. As for going to a coffee shop and asking people, how do you think I should go about that. I wouldn't want to go sit down at a random table and be like "Hey you, what do you think of this idea". Maybe my head is in the wrong place as far as customer discovery is concerned :) Thank you for the advice.
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Re:Startup Hypothesis: Do users want to be social with coffee?
by sherm8n on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @08:15PM
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Go to a highly trafficked coffee shop, grab a latte, and just start talking to people around you. You'll just have to get over the awkwardness of talking to strangers :)
Have a set of questions you can rotate through. Sometimes you can ask 1 or 2 questions before they get annoyed. Other times you can have hour long conversations. Use your judgement to see how engaged they are.
Re:Startup Hypothesis: Do users want to be social with coffee?
by sdwrage on Thursday September 20, 2012 @08:18PM
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Definitely. Thanks for the help :)
Re:Startup Hypothesis: Do users want to be social with coffee?
by mgkimsal on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @07:59PM
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that's exactly what you do!
2 things:
1. Check with the owners - ask if you can do a few customer surveys. Tell them you'll stop after X hours or if anyone complains.
2. Buy some gift cards from the shop and give them out - $5 gift card for... 10 minutes of their time. Have a survey of set questions, but go open-ended as well.