The «chasm», or gap between the early adopters and
early majority customers, is where most new technologies fail and where countless companies die.
Not exact matches
Whereas
earlier a sales person would have the advantage of providing the
customer with a
majority of the information the
customer knew about the product, now the
customers can access most of it online.
Outside of those few
early adopters, technology by itself has negative value to the
majority of potential
customers.
Early adopters may be easy to sign up and the most vocal, but your technology - assessment panel must include customers from the early majority, late majority and even technology lagg
Early adopters may be easy to sign up and the most vocal, but your technology - assessment panel must include
customers from the
early majority, late majority and even technology lagg
early majority, late
majority and even technology laggards.
The
early majority wants to see
customer proof points.
In the
early days of Zappos, they used drop shipping for a
majority of their orders, but «outsourcing that to a third party and trusting that they would care about our
customers as much as we would was one of our biggest mistakes.»
Until 2017, the
majority of Wirex
customers worldwide enjoyed the fruits of
early bitcoin adoption and powered their bitcoin lifestyle by exchanging bitcoin for fiat currencies (USD, EUR, GBP)-- making payments with their Wirex prepaid debit card.
«We still service our regular
customers, but the
majority of our exports to Europe will pump up in
early November,» he said.
While some of the companies listed are arguably not startups anymore as they have a large base of existing
customers, the
majority of companies on the list are in the
early stages of creating or testing a new product or service aimed at the legal services arena.
Until 2017, the
majority of Wirex
customers worldwide enjoyed the fruits of
early bitcoin adoption and powered their bitcoin lifestyle by exchanging bitcoin for fiat currencies (USD, EUR, GBP)-- making payments with their Wirex prepaid debit card.