Comments on: Got customers? How we almost sunk our startup before it started.

By: Got Customers, Part 2: The One in Which We Save the Startup but Lose Our Souls | The MightyBrand Blog

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:21:11 +0000

[...] couple months ago, I wrote about how we built MightyBrand without ever talking to potential customers about what we were building and whether they’d use it. Fortunately, a wise advisor offered us [...]

By: Four Steps to the (Gov 2.0) Epiphany: Better Government Through Citizen Development

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:41:11 +0000

[...] we’ve been thinking and blogging a lot at MightyBrand about Customer Development, and I started thinking about government, and how [...]

By: Four Steps to the (Gov 2.0) Epiphany: Better Government Through Citizen Development | GovFresh: Gov 2.0 Government 2.0

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:34:29 +0000

[...] we’ve been thinking and blogging a lot at MightyBrand about Customer Development, and I started thinking about government, and how [...]

By: Think of That » Inventions Preview

Think of That » Inventions Preview — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:37:28 +0000

[...] product all over the internet, naturally. But still, you might want to look at this article, “Got Customers? How We Almost Sunk Our Startup Before it Started.” In it, Ryan Waggoner, co-founder of MightyBrand, describes what he considers one of the most [...]

By: Ben Yoskovitz

Ben Yoskovitz — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:07:10 +0000

Ryan – Standout Jobs is chugging along. HR is a tough market (tougher than most people realize), and particularly difficult given the challenging economic times when people are hiring less, and investing less in recruiting initiatives. But we're making progress, every day, looking for opportunities…

By: Michael Koenig

Michael Koenig — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:04:43 +0000

Testing. Please ignore.

By: Andy Wright

Andy Wright — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:11:47 +0000

The sooner the better please! As I'll be picking up the phone on Monday and beginning my customer development in earnest.

We did have one customer on board during development [ which was very helpful ], but I wish I'd understood the value of having a much larger group.

By: ryanwaggoner

ryanwaggoner — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:03:11 +0000

Thanks for reading. Our next post will detail more about our customer development process, what we found, and what we did with it. Hopefully it'll be useful for you. Thanks again!

By: David Haywood Smith

David Haywood Smith — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:38:02 +0000

Great post – I love it when posts about startups hit the nail on the head!

By: Why many Startups FAIL? | Mashyep!

Why many Startups FAIL? | Mashyep! — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:03:56 +0000

[...] out the testimony by Ryan Waggoner as to how Mighty Brand rectified some of its early mistakes in its initial [...]