Testing pricing isn't usually a big part of interviews unless you are addressing an enterprise market. Also, Customer Development is larger in scope than pricing or interviews:
Thanks for the link to the article. I think that certain people have the time, or are willing to do this for a startup. There's nothing wrong with that.
But I think it's important to not think of it like a sales pitch.
I am getting "Customer Development" calls as if they are a sales pitch. As if it's okay to sort of bully me into trying to respond to the questions, like a sales person refuses to accept no.
This is incredible annoying, and it's good to see where the (good) intentions of this thing come from.
http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2008/11/what-is-custome...