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Brad Feld on Validating Your Startup Idea

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Learn how to validate your startup idea. Discover a framework to evaluate your business idea early on, to avoid wasting time and money on false starts.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Evaluating your startup idea
1. Validating Your Idea
  • Criteria for an opportunity
  • Costs of not doing it
  • Risk and uncertainty
  • Validating your idea
2. Understand the Problem You Solve
  • Your customer's pain
  • Determine the size of the opportunity
3. Evaluate Your Product
  • Proof of concept
  • Scalability
  • Adoption rate
  • Intellectual property
4. Evaluate Your Market
  • Product/market fit
  • Disruption and innovation
  • Customer acquisition
  • Barriers to entry
  • Competition
5. Evaluate Your People
  • Passion vs. obsession
  • Business acumen
  • Domain knowledge and experience
Conclusion
  • Next steps

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Brad Feld

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