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We swept 30 markets and kept 93 of 3430 candidates. Here is what the 2.7% actually taught me.

Everyone building on a model gets the same objection: it is just a wrapper, a vendor will ship this as a feature.

We swept 30 markets and kept 93 of 3430 candidates. Here is what the 2.7% actually taught me.

Talk to customers is unfalsifiable in the hands of the person who wants the answer

I tested my own idea-validation tool against companies whose stories are already over, and then did not publish an accuracy number

We built the one analysis in our product where a fact about YOU can kill the idea outright

The best-documented problem for coaches is the one software can do least about.

Support is the thing I planned to deal with later. For one person it decides what the product can be.

A validation checklist is a claim about what you would reject. I went and checked mine against a real run.

I ran my own idea through 3 tools on the same day, two of them mine, and the disagreement is the most useful thing I have published.

Narrow it down is advice everyone gives and nobody can act on.

Everyone building on a model gets the same objection: it is just a wrapper, a vendor will ship this as a feature.

Of the 12 checks we run on an idea, exactly one changes when the founder is funded

Four ways mining Reddit for startup ideas went wrong for me, and one disclosure

Two minutes of arithmetic now decide whether I let myself get interested in an idea

We published 50 small business ideas, and the only part I would defend is the format.

Everyone answers where do I find customer problems with a list of websites. I think that is the wrong shape of answer.

I published one idea-sourcing run unedited, with every rejection and its reason attached, and then counted the deaths.

Everyone building on a model gets the same objection: it is just a wrapper, a vendor will ship this as a feature.

I built it and nobody came is the most common story here, and I do not think it is usually a marketing failure.