Re:How to (In)validate Your Startup Idea
by cranbell127 on Friday December 17, 2010 @05:12PM
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No thanks. Lies are a bad business model and a worse life model. Makes one think wepay.com's sense of ethics all boil down to whether it makes them money or not.
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um, the business model I recommend is building products that solve real problems and charging people a fair price to use it.
Testing ideas has nothing to do with determining a business model. Not sure how this relates to WePay's ethics or whether it makes us money or not. Bizarre.
Re:How to (In)validate Your Startup Idea
by prodigal_erik on Friday December 17, 2010 @05:40PM
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> Testing ideas has nothing to do with determining a business model
Your business model includes how you're going to cover the costs of market research. This answer boils down to "we're going to trick people into doing it involuntarily for no compensation, throwing chaff into the marketplace as a negative externality", whether or not they think of it that way. Dry testing is just a step short of fraud, and I for one won't deal with anyone who has ever been caught doing it.