Jun 12, 2025
How to Validate a Startup Idea Before You Build: 6 Practical Tests
Validate a startup idea by testing the problem, interest and willingness to pay before building: problem interviews, a landing page, pre-sales or paid pilots, a manual concierge service, a clickable prototype and, for technical risk, a 2-4 week proof of concept. Then build the MVP.
- Jun 9, 2025
9 Costly Startup Mistakes When Building Your First Product
The costliest startup mistakes happen while building the first product: building before anyone has paid, cramming every feature into version one, choosing a developer on price alone, not owning your code and accounts, launching without analytics and hiring a full team too early.
