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What is the right way to test an idea using a landing page?

I know there is a method to test your product idea using a landing page that describes your product, and asks for the user to enter his email if he would like to register for the beta. Then there is ...
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validating assumptions for MVP and acquiring small business customers

We offer a SAAS and I am at the stage where we have a MVP and are looking to validate our assumptions which is that small shop owners will make more revenue by using our system. Our target customers ...
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Idea Validation ideas

What are some good ways to do low level idea validation before you get into the thick of developing a business concept? In other words, I am trying to find a system to prevent my habit of chasing all ...
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How can I get to product-market fit?

Context: I've been reading up on lean startups for a year and have been flailing unsuccessfully trying to launch one. It's been a tough go, but I have gained a lot of validated learning through my ...
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Good examples of sales page for validating an idea before realization?

I often read the suggestion to validate a business idea doing a marketing campaign (Adwords, Facebook...) and leading to a "sales" page for a product that doesn't exist yet and check if there actually ...
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Should I show pricing on a test landing page?

I put up a test landing page for a SAAS product/service that I think has potential. My goal is to test the market to see if there is enough interest to justify building out the product/service. The ...
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Is sending email a good way to validate an idea with developer companies

So I have built a prototype and I want to validate the idea. Basically it is a social media data mining tool for developers to get feedback for their apps. We retrieve unstructured data from ...
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How do I validate an iPhone or iPad app idea for restaurants?

I have an iPhone/iPad app idea for which I can build an MVP pretty quickly (about a week or two at most). My target customers are local restaurants. How do I approach local restaurants to validate my ...
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How do I validate an idea for a service with infrequent, time-sensitive users using the 'coming soon' page method?

I have an idea that I would like to test using a 'coming soon' landing page. In my instance, the idea is for consumers looking to research, plan and arrange a holiday (vacation). I can see why this ...
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A content website MVP?

I'm considering a startup which at its core is a content website; however I'd like to validate the idea before I invest too much of my time into it. That being said I'm not completely sure how I might ...
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Should a great project to solve one problem become a start-up?

Some time back, I set out to solve a specific problem: How can I help people who haven't met yet collaborate to create great ideas ahead of weekend startup events? I couldn't find a site out there ...
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How could I validate a product that saves large SaaS biz money on bandwith?

My business idea deals with compressing the traffic coming out of web apps to the client. I can show the bandwidth differences with and without my software. How do I know validate if companies will ...
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How do I validate a businesses identity?

I'm developing a website that allows businesses to register. Any ideas how to automate the validation process of the business? For example, to identify an individual you could use a credit card (not ...
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Which partnership participation model use to focus on validation?

I want to begin a startup with keeping investment as low as possible to focus on multiple validation steps and survive as long as posible too in early steps. I know that profits will decrease in new ...
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On finding “pain points”: what forums do professional developers and designers use? [closed]

I'm looking for business opportunities developing software for professionals. The fields I am most familiar with are software development and design, so I thought I would start there. I'd like to ...
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Automating Business Owner Validation/Verification

We are looking for a way to validate that the person who creates an account has the ability to speak for the business in question. (Only U.S. based businesses for now.) And we are looking for ways ...