Legion surveyed over 500 New York businesses door-to-door in one month
Sanish Mondkar · He built in stealth with 1 customer for a year—then grew to 1M paid users across 60,000 locations... · PMF Show · Aug 19, 2024 · at 11:46
Sanish Mondkar, founder and CEO of Legion, explains how he gathered initial customer research by hiring an assistant to conduct door-to-door interviews in New York City.
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“We had like over 500 businesses that we talked to and very well organized data over, you know, three, three, four week period very structured data in a spreadsheet that I could start now talking to people with”
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