Bootstrap Hawaii

Hey we're on iTunes now! This week, I'm continuing to do customer calls for Lesson Underground. I got another 4 calls with students in and also 3 calls with teachers. I talked about it in a previous episode, how the general rule of thumb for  customer development / idea extraction / idea validation / whatever you want to call it is, you keep doing these  calls until the answers start sounding the same. This is starting to happen with my calls and its very exciting! It's beginning to look more and more like we are moving away from the initial marketplace idea for Lesson Underground and moving towards a concierge / matchmaking service for teachers and students. The general idea I'm getting from students is: 1. They want to get better at X (X being whatever they're working on. it varies but they all have something) 2. They want to find 1 teacher that they get along well with and is capable of helping them with their X and stick with that teacher for an extended period of time 3. They for the most part are