How to validate your startup idea quickly
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How to validate your startup idea quickly
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#2With all due respect, a Facebook person's thoughts on validating a startup idea are pretty much irrelevant.
Whatever thing you are building at Facebook starts out with 10 hurricanes of wind behind it.
Startups begin with all the wind of a baby blowing a raspberry.
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#3Ask for money?
Re: How to validate your startup idea quickly
#4With all due respect, a Facebook person's thoughts on validating a startup idea are pretty much irrelevant. Whatever thing you are building at Facebook starts out with 10 hurricanes of wind behind it. Startups begin with all the wind of a baby blowing a raspberry.
True, however, one can also just focus on the ideas expressed in the article separate from its author’s affiliation.
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#5Literally build whatever a cohort of users will pay for and go from there.
Re: How to validate your startup idea quickly
#6With all due respect, a Facebook person's thoughts on validating a startup idea are pretty much irrelevant. Whatever thing you are building at Facebook starts out with 10 hurricanes of wind behind it. Startups begin with all the wind of a baby blowing a raspberry.
True, however, one can also just focus on the ideas expressed in the article separate from its author’s affiliation.
It's not that the author is affiliated with facebook.
The point is that for most startups, you validate your ideas from your kitchen table, fighting to get a handful of visitors to visit your site.
When facebook launches a product at blasts an infinite firehose of users at the product.
So the facebook experience is utterly different to the startup experience and really its kind of absurd to be sitting in facebook advising startups how to do what they do at facebook, they're such disconnected experiences.
Maybe the topic of the article should have been "how to validate a new product coming out of one of the biggest tech companies that ever existed, advice for other product managers from FAANG".
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#7With all due respect, a Facebook person's thoughts on validating a startup idea are pretty much irrelevant. Whatever thing you are building at Facebook starts out with 10 hurricanes of wind behind it. Startups begin with all the wind of a baby blowing a raspberry.
100%
if this was article about how to validate a product idea, that fb launches, than it might be helpful and poignant.
but it has no relevance for validating a start-up
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#8I started reading the post but the moment I saw big numbers in hypothesis I felt like the author has no clue how hard reality is. Facebook is a great cocoon to try random numbers. Outside that founders take months to even find the right set of people who fit your need space.
Just talk, generally, about pains you are trying to solve. Everything else is quite unnecessary.
Did you know that even founder of Zapier had to get on a call to explain their first adopter how the product actually worked? Yeah these are early days. Listen to their podcast of IndieHackers.
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#9If the author ends a statement with a question mark, I find it very hard to take them seriously. How can they be insightful but not thorough enough to check a title? Does that make me a bad person? I mean just that, on its own?
Re: How to validate your startup idea quickly
#10If the author ends a statement with a question mark, I find it very hard to take them seriously. How can they be insightful but not thorough enough to check a title? Does that make me a bad person? I mean just that, on its own?
Thanks for your feedback.