How do you avoid early adopter bias and validate your assumptions with data?

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If you're building a product or service based on the lean startup methodology, you know how important it is to validate your assumptions with data. But how do you make sure you're not only listening to your early adopters, who might have different needs and preferences than your mainstream customers? In this article, you'll learn how to avoid early adopter bias and test your hypotheses with data from a broader and more representative sample of your target market.

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Florian Michalik

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Maria Luiza Marinho

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1 What is early adopter bias?

Early adopter bias is the tendency to overestimate the demand and feedback from your first and most enthusiastic users, who are often more willing to try new things, give feedback, and tolerate flaws. While early adopters are valuable for generating initial traction and insights, they might not reflect the needs, behaviors, and expectations of your larger and more diverse customer segments. If you rely too much on their opinions and data, you might miss out on opportunities to reach and satisfy a wider and more profitable market.

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Sophie Sweatman
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I'm finding this view of early adopters a little generalised. Whenever I find a new product or service, ie test.io, I give thorough UX feedback, mention bugs and also onboarding barriers and message delivery, which could be more accessible. I am definitely not more tolerant just because I am enthusiastic for great new ideas to succeed. I don't believe other early adopters are tolerant of bugs or unpolished onboarding experiences either. Responses to new technology are responsibility of creators.

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Maria Luiza Marinho

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Para evitar o viés da ado??o precoce, lembre-se de diversificar sua base de feedback, sempre incluindo usuários de diferentes perfis. A variedade de perspectivas valida suposi??es de maneira mais abrangente, mitigando possíveis suposi??es de um grupo mais restrito como os early adopters.

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Eric Caba?as

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Para evitar la sobrevaloración del feedback de los primeros usuarios, es fundamental ampliar la variedad de fuentes de feedback. Aunque pueda parecer que los primeros usuarios son esenciales para generar lealtad a la marca y promoverla, es crucial considerar las perspectivas de otros potenciales usuarios. Una estrategia efectiva es llevar a cabo entrevistas de validación con individuos afines a la solución pero que aún no la han probado. Durante estas entrevistas, es crucial indagar sobre sus experiencias y, sobre todo, comprender por qué aún no han adoptado nuestra solución.

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2 How to identify early adopters

Before you can avoid early adopter bias, you need to know who your early adopters are and how they differ from your other potential customers. One way to do this is to use the diffusion of innovations theory, which classifies customers into five categories based on their adoption rate: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. Innovators and early adopters are the first to adopt new products or services, while the majority and laggards are more cautious and skeptical. You can use surveys, interviews, or online tools to segment your customers based on their adoption rate and other characteristics, such as demographics, psychographics, and behaviors.

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Trenton Hughes

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To find early adopters of your startup offering, typically you are going to need to do either good marketing or good sales. Marketing is probably best as they are coming to you, already interested. Sales you are usually convincing them the service is for them. Once they are in the door, give them the tools and resources to become actual users or your product. The better you set them up for success, the longer they will use your service.

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3 How to validate your assumptions with data

Once you have identified your early adopters and other customer segments, you need to validate your assumptions with data from each group. The lean startup approach recommends using the build-measure-learn cycle, which involves creating a minimum viable product (MVP), measuring its performance and feedback, and learning from the results. To avoid early adopter bias, you need to make sure you're testing your MVP with a diverse and representative sample of your target market, not just your early adopters. You also need to use different types of data, such as quantitative and qualitative, to capture both the behavior and the motivation of your customers.

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Florian Michalik

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?? ???????????? ???????????? ???????? ????????????, ???????? ?????? ?????? ?????????????????? ???????????? ?????????????? ???????? ?????? ????????. Daten sind nur dann wertvoll, wenn Du sie nutzt, um Deine Annahmen zu hinterfragen. Rede mit Menschen, die Dein Produkt noch nicht nutzen, und finde heraus, was wirklich z?hlt. Die Gefahr liegt darin, Annahmen nie zu testen. Nutze A/B-Tests oder Kundeninterviews, um Deine Annahmen zu validieren. MVPs sind Werkzeuge zum Lernen. So iterierst Du schneller und verstehst die Nutzerbedürfnisse besser.

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4 How to use data to iterate and improve

The final step in avoiding early adopter bias is to use the data you've collected to iterate and improve your product or service. Based on the feedback and metrics from your different customer segments, you need to decide whether to persevere, pivot, or perish. Persevere means continuing with your current strategy and making incremental changes. Pivot means changing one or more aspects of your strategy, such as your value proposition, customer segment, or revenue model. Perish means abandoning your idea and starting over. To make these decisions, you need to use data-driven criteria, such as the lean startup's innovation accounting, which compares your actual results with your expected results.

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5 How to balance early adopters and mainstream customers

Avoiding early adopter bias doesn't mean ignoring or alienating your early adopters. They are still important for generating word-of-mouth, providing feedback, and validating your vision. However, you need to balance their needs and preferences with those of your mainstream customers, who might have different pain points, expectations, and habits. To do this, you need to understand the value proposition and the job-to-be-done for each customer segment, and tailor your product or service accordingly. You also need to communicate and engage with your customers in different ways, depending on their adoption rate and their level of satisfaction.

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6 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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1 What is early adopter bias?

2 How to identify early adopters

3 How to validate your assumptions with data

4 How to use data to iterate and improve

5 How to balance early adopters and mainstream customers

6 Here’s what else to consider

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