A few of my favorite stories of how founders validated their startup ideas: 1. After 6 ideas that didn't work out, Rujul Zaparde (@rujulz) and Lu Cheng created a 16-point checklist for what a great startup idea needs to hit. https://t.co/Ult2FOAQ9G

I don't know why. Let me tell you one other thing about the Internet: there are thousands of such ideas under our noses even as we speak. Why things happen, I just don't know. Maybe somebody has a need and, in our case, we had a need. That's what triggered the idea. Sometimes ideas are born out of necessity: you solve a problem for yourself, and yo

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