Validate the evidence behind your startup idea

Answer six concrete questions. The result measures validation progress—not whether an idea is guaranteed to work—and gives you the next evidence to collect.

Can you name a narrow first customer segment?

Does the problem happen at least monthly?

Have at least five target users described this pain unprompted?

Do people already spend time or money on an alternative?

Has anyone paid, preordered, or signed a letter of intent?

Can you name one repeatable way to reach the first 100 users?