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Stage 0: Idea Validation

The Milestone: Get a small number of users very excited by your product, to experience ‘the magic’ of the approach. 

The magic is that moment when your user mentally puts together a big problem they have with the way your product solves it.

Typically, founders will get caught up in trying to make the first experience rock solid. That’s not important. It doesn’t have to be perfect to determine this, in fact it’s best if it isn’t because if you can get somebody excited about a bad product, you can later get them more excited about a good product.

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