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How to Validate Your Startup With Customers Before Building

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A pre-seed fund's practical checklist for what real validation looks like before you write code, insisting on quantified answers, like 87 percent said they'd use this twice a week, over vague enthusiasm. It walks through using existing online communities to find and talk to prospects before you have anything to show them. A good gut check if your current evidence is a handful of that sounds cool reactions.

• Quantify responses, most people liked it is not evidence of anything.
• Ask how often and how much they'd pay, not whether they like the idea.
• Find prospects in existing online communities before you build anything to show them.