Learn how to generate rich insights about your business model just by talking to your customers.
Customer Discovery & Debriefing
There is nothing more impactful to your early-stage business model than truly understanding the person you are building for and selling to. This interactive online workshop teaches all you need to know to get out of the building and start talking to your customers. By doing customer discovery, you will understand your customer needs, goals, pains, and aspirations in order to build the right product.
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Who It’s For?
For innovators learning the discovery process and holding conversations with potential early adopters. Useful for early-stage projects that need customer discovery interviews to validate the customer's needs and goals.
How It Works
Our experienced coach guides you through each step, giving you direct feedback on your work and helping you develop innovation as a core competency. You will use your own projects to ensure that the theory is immediately applied to real-world scenarios.
Real Projects
Get individual feedback on your real projects.
Focused Guidance
Develop new skills with a small cohort and direct coaching.
Interactive Sessions
Run live exercises with an expert coach during our weekly sessions.
Materials & Frameworks
Get self-study learning materials and frameworks.
What You Learn
How to make sense of qualitative data
How to debrief customer discovery interviews and better understand customer needs, goals, pains, and aspirations
How to update your interview guides, personas, storyboards, and other discovery material
How to maximize the amount you learn about your customers
Understanding the person you are building for and selling to
How to cluster and map data relevant to a learning goal
When to move from problem discovery to value proposition testing
Designed by Successful Entrepreneurs and Experts
Nick Noreña
Nick Noreña is an innovation coach based out of Berkeley, California, who has spent the last 10 years working in the startup and corporate innovation space. He has worked with over 100 project teams and businesses as a coach, educator, and entrepreneur. Nick specializes in helping early stage startup or corporate teams validate their business ideas.
Jon Ruark
Jon is an Innovation Coach with 17 years of Department of Defense and Intelligence Community experience. He is passionate about helping organizations become data-driven and helping entrepreneurs figure out where to start. Jon is an expert in hypothesis testing, business experimentation, innovation accounting, and MVP development.
Tristan Kromer
Tristan Kromer works with innovation teams and leaders to create amazing products and build startup ecosystems. He has worked with companies from early stage startups with zero revenue to enterprise companies with >$1B USD revenue (Unilever, Swisscom, Salesforce, Fujitsu, LinkedIn).
Testimonials
Kromatic’s hands-on introduction to Lean Startup and its guiding principles was a complete wake-up call for my startup, forcing us to launch our MVP and learn fast.
Ryan Bruels, Vice President of Engineering, Knock
Kromatic’s workshop was incredibly engaging and interactive. Every detail was carefully thought out, from the design-thinking approach to clear and visually engaging material.
Kathryn Haydon, Innovation Strategist, Sparkitivity
It helped to think through a new lens on how to measure the middle space between initial vanity metrics and long-term revenue/product results.
Kyle Smith, Senior Manager, American Family Insurance
Rigorous is a great word to describe Kromatic. The pace is fast and intense. It’s part of their ethos that you need to learn and fail quickly.
Brendan Sheehan, Chief Financial Officer, CBUSA
Our coach helped us to identify the most important steps to take, and we always had a clear objective and action plan at the end of a conversation.
James Bryce Smith, Founder, Magnetize
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Customizable Curriculum
Each workshop is a component of the greater innovation library. Programs can be curated to include all the workshops you need to make real progress and show impactful results. Whether you are part of an innovation team, you are coaching teams, or leading a business unit as an innovation leader, our library will give you the tools and skills to succeed.
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