Re:Ask HN: How to Validate an Idea for a Startup?
by ndusan-hn on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @04:27AM
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Would you say that by asking ppl to fill in a simple Monkey Survey be sufficient, in case you're looking for a World wide audience?
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Re:Ask HN: How to Validate an Idea for a Startup?
by anthony_franco on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @05:48PM
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You won't get enough data if you ask them to fill out a survey. If you try a single interview you'll see why. You'll end up with pages of notes and venture into problems you had no idea about. If you had asked them to fill out a survey instead, you would've ended up with just a fraction of the information.
And world wide or not doesn't matter. I did all my interviews over Skype.
Re:Ask HN: How to Validate an Idea for a Startup?
by ndusan-hn on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @06:21AM
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Awesome! Just a question - how did you go about finding interested candidates who wanted to participate and take a Skype call?
Re:Ask HN: How to Validate an Idea for a Startup?
by anthony_franco on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:41AM
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Reach out to your network or email your friends to put you in contact with potential users. It should be moderately easy since you're just asking for a free Skype call, you're not asking for money yet.
If you're having problem finding people to get on a free Skype call then it's a big red flag. You'll need to reconsider your positioning or your market. Because eventually you'll (presumably) be asking for money and that's even harder.