Brad Feld on Validating Your Startup Idea

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

Course Description

Overview

Learn how to validate your startup idea. Discover a framework to evaluate your business idea early on, to avoid wasting time and money on false starts.

Syllabus

Introduction

Evaluating your startup idea

1. Validating Your Idea

Criteria for an opportunity
Costs of not doing it
Risk and uncertainty
Validating your idea

2. Understand the Problem You Solve

Your customer's pain
Determine the size of the opportunity

3. Evaluate Your Product

Proof of concept
Scalability
Adoption rate
Intellectual property

4. Evaluate Your Market

Product/market fit
Disruption and innovation
Customer acquisition
Barriers to entry
Competition

5. Evaluate Your People

Passion vs. obsession
Business acumen
Domain knowledge and experience

Conclusion

Next steps

Taught by

Brad Feld

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