"never mention your product"

Uma entrevista interessante para quem está no mundo das startups "Brant Cooper: “Experimentation is the most efficient way to work through uncertainty”", contudo, vou sublinhar apenas dois pontos que não se aplicam só às startups:

"if in the first meeting you never mention your product, that’s a good conversation.  When talking about your solution, you are actually asking you customer to help solve your problema, which is developing the right solution. But what you actually want to be doing is solving the customer’s problem! So stop talking about yourself.
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the more disruptive the product the more disruptive the funnel must be.  If you think about it, it makes quite a bit of sense.  If you, for instance, créate a radical new peanut butter, but créate the same container, the same existing labeling, and occupy the same super market shelf as all the other peanut butter, why do you think you will succeed.  You appear to be just like all the others! The ability to create passion in a product more often than not goes beyond the product itself. In other words, it’s the product’s Brand – and by that, I don’t mean the Brand identity – logo, tagline, etc. To succeed with a more disruptive product, you must also disrupt something else related to the product that in itself provides value to the customer.  Something in marketing, sales, distribution, support, etc."