Founder Log · Dec 2025 #1
The road to the first customer
Are your reps setting the time, and wrapping up the call properly? Despite the last post, I've been thinking about what "MVP" actually means for Calleoke. Not minimum viable — minimum sellable. What's the smallest thing someone would pay for? My first instinct: build the teleprompter. Real-time coaching, karaoke-ball tracking, suggestions that evolve as confidence grows. The full vision. But that's a lot of complex moving parts. And complex means slow. Slow means no customers. No customers means no feedback. No feedback means building blind. So I asked a different question: what's the core value, stripped to its simplest form?
The teleprompter tells you what to say. But before that matters, there's something simpler: Did you hit the key objectives?
Every sales call has moments that matter — did you confirm the duration of today's meeting, did you agree on next steps in the call, did you book the next meeting and send the invite and confirm receipt. Miss one of these and the deal stalls. Not because you said the wrong thing — because you forgot or didn't have time to say the right thing.
So the MVP isn't the teleprompter. It's the objectives tracker. Listen to the call. Track what matters. Alert when something critical is about to be missed. "You're 20 minutes in and haven't confirmed next steps." Simple. Concrete. Valuable today.
The teleprompter is where I'm going. The objectives tracker is how I get the first check.
Find the right pilot customer. Someone with real calls, real objectives, real stakes. Their process becomes the blueprint. We build it together.
If that sounds like you — let's talk.