📃 Startup Validation Step One: MAKE A LIST! EXAMPLE INSIDE!

⭐ CREATE A LIST OF CUSTOMERS⭐

I am sure you have a startup idea.

You have the product idea and are thinking:

1. Do I just start building it?
2. Do I need a technical cofounder?
3. How do I know what people want?

🚫 Ok. Stop. It is probably too early for that.

DO THIS:

✅ Go to forms.google.com and create a super simple landing page that explains who you are and what you are trying to accomplish. IT’S FREE!

(an example of one of mine is at the bottom of this email)

Be VERY BRIEF!

Discuss the problem you are looking to solve and touch on your ambition to solve it.

✅ Add a spot on the form to collect email addresses and replies.

✅ Ask, on the form, if the visitor would be up for a conversation on the topic and the problem. Enable commenting on the form.

⭐ IT’S FREE!! ⭐

Google forms is free.

🤑 Money spent so far: $0

⭐ HEAD TO SOCIAL MEDIA NEXT ⭐

Jump in conversations on Reddit, Twitter and Facebook Groups.

✅ Search to find topics and conversations about the problem you want to solve and the market you are entering.


Check out what people are complaining about.

What are they frustrated with?

What things have they tried already — and why have these solutions failed?

⭐ INJECT YOURSELF INTO THE CONVERSATIONS ⭐

DON’T pitch your idea yet.

Just be a friendly voice that offers help and advice and your unique insight into the problem and the market.

⭐⭐⭐ START TO WRITE YOUR OWN ARTICLES AND POSTS ⭐⭐⭐

It’s time to share your expertise on social media.

Back in the day - we’d blog about our expertise.

But it takes too long for Google to start indexing your posts, and for people to find you.

So, social media is the place for immediate results.

✅ Write about the problems you’ve found in the market.

Write about your frustrations dealing with the problem.

Start telling people that you are working on a solution.

Write everywhere! Share everywhere!

⭐ The ‘ASK’ ⭐

It’s time to start directing people to your Google Form.

✅ In every post, article and conversation, going forward, tell people you’d love to hear their feedback on the topic.

Link the Google Form and encourage people to start a conversation with you.

It doesn’t take long to become a trusted voice in a market.

But, like anything meaningful in life, it does take a LITTLE bit of time… so be patient and keep engaging with the target audience.

💚 Eventually, you’ll have a good group of people that have shared their email address in your Google Form.

And you can start to find out what these people might pay for, if anything, in the market you want to enter.

🤑 Total amount spent: $0 😍

🚀 For super-fast traction, join a group on Facebook or Reddit and hold a giveaway.  

Direct people to your Google Form for their feedback and pick one winner (set a one-week deadline for people to sign up) and give something away.

This might cost you some money, but it can speedrun your discovery process.

🤝 You don’t need 5000 emails to find out if you are on the right track with your idea.

You might only need 10 or 20.

The more the better, but you’ll start hearing the same thing over and over — and you’ll know which direction to head.

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