Startups Anonymous Est. 2013 · Read-only archive
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If you have only one person that needs your product (according to a signup on the landing page and the conversation after that), would you continue to build the 1st version?

6 answers from the community

AAnonymous· Feb 14, 2014

Nope, need at least 10 to start.

AAnonymous· Feb 14, 2014

Why do we need 10? Is that a norm? Let's say i don't continue on this, what do you think for the next step? I think i am having trouble when i have to learn from potential customer, since it's only one person that gave respond to my idea.

AAnonymous· Feb 16, 2014

Did that 1 person pay for it? I'm betting that they didn't.

AAnonymous· Feb 17, 2014

Yes, he would pay for it. Even, he doesn't mind if he gives his credit card number to us. :)

AAnonymous· Feb 18, 2014

Totally depends on the conversion rate. I recently spoke with an investor who is also the head of a local start-up accelerator. His advice was to focus on ideas that see a conversion rate of 25% or higher from the landing page.

If only 4 people visited your landing page, and one supplied their email and credit card data, you may have something. Focus on getting more people from your target demographic to the landing page and aim for 25% conversions or higher.

AAnonymous· Feb 19, 2014

Unfortunately it's 1 / hundreds, which means 0.00xxx%

The follow up question : How do you pivot if you have some context like mine? I can't learn something from potential customers because only 1 people that i can look for conversation, and i lose my interest and passion.

Is that mean i should continue to work on something else?