How to Validate Your Business Idea Properly

My guest this week is Johnathan Sun, founder of Horizan VC.

In this episode, he’ll break down the first stages that every founder should not only do to get their business off the ground but validate it properly.

He explains how founders can use prototyping to validate their idea quickly and cheaply; how to calculate the right time to raise money and the biggest mistake when it comes to traction.

If you’re looking to learn more about validating your idea, when to raise money and how to avoid the biggest startup killer, you’re in the right place.

Structure:

0:40 Introduction

0:55 How can you validate your idea?

1:44 How Pretotyping can validate your business idea quickly

3:30 Example of how Johnathan used Pretotyping to validate an idea

5:15 How to find customers

6:00 Why you shouldn’t use Facebook Ads

8:00 In an early-stage startup what counts as a good level of traction

9:33 Mistakes Founders can avoid

15:57 What too early to get money

19:00 Startup Sin Bin

23:40 Startup Hack

If you have a question that you would like answered, then email them over to my podcast producer Rosie at Rosie@stakester.com  #startup #businesstips #founder

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This is your chance to get your interesting and innovative business in front of a global audience, where you can talk ‘growth and development’ with Tom Fairey: a founder who has been there and done that.

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