Validate Your Idea


Discuss your startup idea not only with friends, but also other people who are strangers to you. I promise that you will definitely learn a lot here. The concept of your idea getting stolen is 99.99% impossible. Visit barcamps, hackerspace, geek terminals and bounce your ideas to different people.

We failed to do this step and hence overestimated the Singapore market. We found that the Singapore market for such a service turned out to be very small. People are SMS crazy in Singapore, but that does not mean that they were ready to pay for the service.

Looking back I would say this is the most important step which we could have done to save a lot of disappointment later.


(written by Vijay Ganesan, founder of failed startup SMSnoodle)

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