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Jason Evanish Founder Get Lighthouse, prev Product @ KISSmetrics

Austin, TX

Throughout my career I've helped build customer-driven companies using the principles of Lean, Customer Development & Jobs to Be Done. I'm now applying them at GetLighthouse.com, an app to help you be a great people manager.

I can help most if you're a SaaS business and have product development process or analytics questions. If you have leadership and management questions, I can also help due to my own experience and research for Get Lighthouse.

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  • Reviews 27
  • Answers 1

Had a great call with Jason specific to product management. He used the time extremely well, gave me a ton of useful, actionable advice in a short period of time, and I look forward to speaking with him again.

Source: Clarity Anne Vickman Jan 12, 2020

Great call, very focused and actionable feedback. Jason is helping me build the entire cust dev process from the ground up. A few calls in each phase will really help us stay focused and eliminate the early mistakes.

Source: Clarity John Paul Narowski (CF) Jul 11, 2018

Great content and gave me a lot of clarity on my direction.

Source: Clarity John Paul Narowski Apr 22, 2018

Great insights from Jason on laying the foundations for 1-1s with a new remote team.

Source: Clarity Rob Barr Feb 22, 2018

Jason thoughtfully reviewed my challenge and provided the insights and validation that I was looking for. I appreciate the questions he asked to better understand the situation before jumping in with advice, and I won’t hesitate in contacting him again in the future.

Source: Clarity Ryo Chiba Dec 7, 2017

Jason knows the Customer Development game inside and out. He offered a fresh perspective that I can immediately take action on.

I'll be calling him again as I advance my startup. Thanks Jason!

Source: Clarity Eric Conley Mar 26, 2017

Jason was incredibly helpful. He provided me with a ton of useful information to guide me in the right direction and help me get started. I will absolutely be reaching out to Jason again.

Source: Clarity Andrew Shilon Feb 20, 2017

Amazing insights, well worth your time.

Source: Clarity Kareem Mayan Mar 3, 2016

Great call, Jason gave me specific and actionable information to help me move more efficiently with my current tasks. Was surprised and fortunate to also receive feedback which I wasn't expecting that I found very beneficial. I would recommend to read into his thorough blog first to find relevant information for your inquiry which can be referenced during the call and looked at after to compliment your chat with him. http://jasonevanish.com/

Source: Clarity Brad Katronis Jan 19, 2015

Jason was very hands on and helped guide me in the right direction in our customer development efforts. I absolutely recommend scheduling a call with Jason, especially if you are in the early phase of your startup and have questions about interviewing people.

Source: Clarity Ondrej Prostrednik Dec 10, 2014
Jason Evanish, Founder Get Lighthouse, prev Product @ KISSmetrics answered:

You need to ask yourself what your greatest risks are for your business. Especially since you're self-funded and bootstrapped, I would not wait to validate whether people will pay for your product.

The beauty of someone paying is that not only does it validate interest, but they are then *invested* in your solution. They now have expectations for what you are going to deliver to them.

On the other hand, think about all the free stuff you pick up at conferences, trade shows and walking down the street. How much of it was there ever a chance you'd pay for it? Much of it is unlikely you would. That means you run the risk of having people kick the tires on your product and never be really interested in what you're doing or paying anything.

Happy to talk further and help you better approach your customer discovery as I've been doing custdev interviews for 4+ years.

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