# Validate a business idea before building it

Stress-tests an idea's demand, competition, and economics and designs cheap experiments.

- Topic: Business Strategy & Startups
- Framework: RTF
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Analyze, Brainstorm, Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/validate-a-business-idea-before-building-it

## Prompt

```text
Help me validate a business idea.

**Idea:** [DESCRIPTION]
**Target customer:** [WHO]
**Problem it solves:** [PROBLEM]
**How it makes money:** [MODEL, PRICE]
**What I've done so far:** [conversations, research, signups]

Evaluate honestly:
1. **Problem** — is it painful, frequent, and urgent? Evidence for and against.
2. **Customer** — are they reachable, and do they have budget?
3. **Competition and alternatives** — including doing nothing.
4. **Economics** — rough unit economics and what must be true for this to work.
5. **Risks** — the assumptions most likely to be wrong.

Then design 3 cheap experiments (landing page, pre-sale, concierge MVP, interviews) with success criteria decided in advance. End with a verdict: pursue / pivot / drop — and why.
```

## What to fill in

- DESCRIPTION
- WHO
- PROBLEM
- MODEL, PRICE
- conversations, research, signups

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