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Opportunity Recognition How to test and validate startup ideas. Mitch Robinson

How to Test And Validate Your Ideas

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Opportunity RecognitionHow to test and validate startup ideas.

Mitch Robinson

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@mitchrobs

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About Me

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Cognitive Biases & Opportunity Validation

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Cognitive Biases & Opportunity Validation

3 Levels of Validation:

Survey’s & “Do You Like My Idea”

Situational Methods

Doing Things That Don’t Scale

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What you want to do vs. what you should do.

It’s not easy, and naturally we’ll want to “play house”. Starting a startup is where “playing the game” stops working.

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Opportunity recognition, at it’s core, is validating that people want what you’re going to make.

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– Paul Graham“Make something people want.”

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If you want to build something that people want, you need to know

what they want.

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Don’t ask people for money because you want money. Ask for money because you want the truth.

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Questions?

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