Talking to Customers

What are the different types of customer pain? How do I identify a target customer? How do I build a customer persona? What are effective methods of customer research? How do I know if customers will buy my product? How do I know customers will buy my product? How do I find people to interview for user interviews? How do I incentivize user interview participants? What do I do with results from customer interviews? What is the value of staying close to customers? How do I show my company value to customers? How do I know when to stop researching? How should I go about research and validation? When validating a new product idea, what questions should I be asking? When I socialize my idea, how do I determine which parts need to remain confidential? How do I recruit participants for user interviews without selling them on my idea? How should I go about customer discovery? How can I prove there is customer interest for my deep tech startup? If I build it, will they come? Should my customer interview questions be open ended? How should I go about user testing? What format should I use for customer interviews? How should I go about customer discovery? How much user testing should I do in early product development? How do I process negative feedback in a customer interview? What should I keep in mind when conducting customer interviews? How do I know when to use formal research vs. learn by doing? How do I know customers need what I'm building? How do I win my first customer? What should I keep in mind when conducting customer interviews? How do you know if people will actually do what they tell you they will? How do I know when a customer is telling the truth vs. trying to make me happy? When should I pull engineers into conversations with customers? How can I integrate research into company processes? How has user research changed in the past few years?