ideal customer profile

also referred to as: icp

8 statements across 7 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Oct 25, 2023 by Ely Lerner · across every show →

Everything said about ideal customer profile, oldest first

Oct 25, 2023
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Lerner: Optimizing overall conversion without ICP tracking wastes growth resources
“One of the biggest things I see people do wrong is they see they have a conversion problem. They point a team at conversion and they look at the conversion metric overall. The problem is a bunch of those people are not ICP and they're never going to convert an…”
Ely Lerner Oct 25, 2023 ▶ 53:12 Ely Lerner: Should Startups Hire Advisors & How much should they be paid? | E1075 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 25, 2023
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Lerner: Horizontal product ICPs are defined by attributes, not personas
“Horizontal products also have an ICP. This is, I love this one. I'm going to call this out even though you didn't ask. I think it's an important one for so many people. Horizontal products have an ICP because the true ICP should be defined in terms of attribut…”
Ely Lerner Oct 25, 2023 ▶ 54:01 Ely Lerner: Should Startups Hire Advisors & How much should they be paid? | E1075 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 31, 2024 positive
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Kellogg: Ideal customer profile evolves from aspiration to regression
“An ICP, ideal customer profile. ICP starts out as an aspiration, and over time it becomes a regression, right?”
Dave Kellogg Jan 31, 2024 ▶ 4:58 Dave Kellogg: How to Forecast in 2024 & Why CaC Payback is Flawed and CAC Ratio is Better | E1110 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 17, 2024
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Zhang: Artificially narrowing target ICPs restricts business growth
“My goal there is not to be like, let's artificially constrain, because I think that actually artificially constrains your business. That's when you draw that Venn diagram, and you say, hey, you know, for Linktree, it's, yes, it's SMBs, and yes, it's creators, …”
Jiaona Zhang May 17, 2024 ▶ 21:13 Jiaona Zhang: Why All Product Teams Should Have a Scorecard & How to Use It | E1154 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 12, 2024 positive
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Roberge: Early startups should segment ICP targets into Green, Yellow, and Red tiers
“Cause we just don't know, but like there's some folks I like to do like a green, yellow, red. I have different attributes. Like, you know, how many employees were they located in the world? What sectors are they in these types of things? Right. And the green i…”
Mark Roberge Jul 12, 2024 ▶ 38:25 Mark Roberge: The Framework for How Startups Should Scale into the Enterprise -Stage 2 Capital|E1176 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 23, 2024 negative
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Assigning sales reps broad geographic territories without ICPs is disastrous
“What I never want to see is, Hey, I just hired 10 reps. I put a rep in New York, rep in Dallas. And a rep in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and I told them they can have all the accounts in those geographies. You're in deep shit.”
Chad Peets Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 19:00 Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 6, 2024
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Bookman: Narrowing ideal customer profiles directly increases SaaS growth rates
“Every step we took to shrink the product market fit segmentation, and to get more focused on the ICP, the ideal customer profile, our growth rate ticked up.”
Zachary Bookman Dec 6, 2024 ▶ 28:31 Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 27, 2025 positive
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Graves: PLG founders must personally establish their ideal customer profile
“It's figuring out who is your ideal customer profile, and I strongly believe it's the founder, because that's not only going to guide your go-to-market strategy, it's also going to guide your product roadmap, and where do you continue To lean in.”
Kim Graves Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 18:03 20Sales: How to Layer Enterprise Sales on PLG | How to Sell AI Tools To Enterprises That Are Scared | Should Reps Own Their Own Pipeline | Mistakes All Founders Make When Moving From Founder-Led to Rep-Led Sales with Kim Graves
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