Y Combinator Startup School, "How to Talk to Users"
Y Combinator Startup School, "How to Talk to Users" (Eric Migicovsky, YouTube, ~20 min)
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WEEK 29 · AUDIT DELIVERY 1
Do one thing.
Then you are ahead.
A good doctor's first visit is mostly listening and measuring: history, vitals, a few tests, and only then a diagnosis. The first audit week is that visit. You map the client's experimental loop from idea to decision, inventory every data source (paper notebooks, instrument exports, spreadsheets, email), measure cycle time and data readiness, and run one instrument on their sample data to produce a first prototype. …
If you only do one thing this week: the loop map with cycle-time numbers
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How long have you got?
By Sunday you should be able to say: “I can show a founder where their loop loses days, with numbers from their own records.”
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