{"id":555,"date":"2014-09-25T15:48:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T15:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/debane.org\/franck\/?p=555"},"modified":"2014-09-25T22:40:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T22:40:19","slug":"problem-interview-guide-for-lean-startup-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debane.org\/franck\/problem-interview-guide-for-lean-startup-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Problem Interview Guide for Lean Startup Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hard part of customer development doing problem interview. It\u2019s hard because interviewing strangers is not natural and its also actually hard to do the interview right.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that practice do make perfect, get it wrong a couple of times and you quickly understand what to correct and what to keep. If you want some simple exercices to improve your problem interview skills tweet this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https:\/\/debane.org\/franck\/&amp;text=How+can+I+get+better+at+doing+problem+interviews+@fdebane+@adamberk\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Click here to tweet this.\" target=\"_blank\">What exercice can I do to get better at problem interviews? @fdebane @adamberk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, here the problem interview guide we use:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/debane.org\/franck\/wp-content\/uploads\/LSXP-HowtodoCustomerDiscoverInterviews.pdf\">Download the problem interview guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s to print and take as a memo for interviews.<br \/>\nHere is a guide to print and take as a memo for interviews.<br \/>\nYou should not read the guide while doing the interview, but can refer to it inbetween interviews.<\/p>\n<p>If you have to remember just 3 rules for problem interviews here they are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Do not talk about your business idea or product<\/li>\n<li>Ask about past events and behaviours<\/li>\n<li>No leading question, learn from the customer<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/debane.org\/franck\/wp-content\/uploads\/LSXP-HowtodoCustomerDiscoverInterviews.pdf\">Download the full problem interview guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To capture the output of the interview, you can use the <a href=\"https:\/\/debane.org\/franck\/problem-interview-template\/\" title=\"Problem interview template\">problem interview template<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hard part of customer development doing problem interview. 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