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LEARN— MEASURE — DO

Theron McCollough
3 min readJul 12, 2018

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Can you describe your ideal customer? And, do you know if what you think your customer is aligns with who they actually are? Can you describe that archetype customer in 4 or 5 bullets?

Your customer knows what they want — but how well do you know them? Instead of telling the customer what you do for them, ask them, out of my business what is the most compelling thing I can do for you?

One of the best ways to do this is by asking a simple set of questions by using a tool like survey monkey, collect the responses in a document and share it with your team.

Measure.

Questions like:

- What do you do professionally?

- What are some unmet needs you have?

- If you had a solution to the unmet needs, what would it mean to you/how would it affect you?

- What are you currently doing/using to solve this problem/get this value?

- What might prevent you from using our product/services?

- What motivates you to continue using our product?

- Is there anything else you think I should know about that I didn’t ask?

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Theron McCollough
Theron McCollough

Written by Theron McCollough

Managing Director at Citizens Private Bank | VC/Tech; past Managing Director with First Republic,@SVB_Financial. founder, investor, limited partner, and banker

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