Want to be the next Mark Zuckerberg?
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Are you looking forth to lead the next wave in business?
Take this one vital method to consideration — product validation!
If you an aspiring entrepreneur and don’t know the value of product validation you are going to miss out a lot.
But, that’s not to worry because I’m going to give an under-surfaced explanation about it.
Like Gary Vee said:
“Kindness is much more important than having money to your ear or ice to your f**cking wrist.”
In other words:
I am here to share my knowledge with you so you can take the offering and utilize the concept to better yourself or your company!
Many startups and businesses might have heard of product validation and there are many who don’t consider the value you can achieve from listening to your potential or “already customers”.
I myself struggle at times to hold myself back from just working on the actual product.
Like if you don’t already know me besides working with businesses I like developing apps and sometimes I feel like I can’t get myself under control because I just want to get my very first app on the app store.
It’s not even about getting rich,
or getting famous.
I just want my first business app on the market and fight my way to the top.
But, I am taking so many precautions as I am looking forth to creating this app and this new business.
Luckily I have friends that could give me a little head start in the games because they been entrepreneurs for a couple years and they know somewhat how the games are played.
The 1st reason why you should never skip product validation
- Businesses are wrapping themselves around the Lean Startup method. Product validations allow business and startups build, measure and learn more about their product.
The 2nd reason why you should never skip product validation
- Customers are very important to your business. Who the f**k you think you are without customers? Damn well, you, not an entrepreneur. You can go ahead and call yourself a “wannabepreneur” because customers lead the business. Listening to customers not only enhances your business but you get higher credit and much more pleasing reviews about your business when you care about your customers.
The 3rd and the most important reason why not to skip product validation is —
- Because you can save so much time! Product validation allows you to receive at most constructive feedback and learn what is really important and what isn’t as important.
Hopefully, I convinced you to use product validation if you haven’t already.
Trust me its worth it.
But, product validation outcomes depends on both internal and external emotions.
In the side of internal you —
1. Need to be patient!
- Everyone wants to leave the marathon shoes behind and just want to run a sprint. You just to understand that those don’t work all the time. Digest it this way: Imagine you put investing in Tesla corp. your investment interest don’t just go up right away. You need to be patient and over time the value of your investment will grow. That’s the same thing with your business. Product validation shouldn’t be a race — it should be a marathon.
2. Stay confident!
- Whenever you feel better you tend to do much more. Just remind yourself that there is a certain goal you want to reach and you just need to best execute and win the market.
After all product validation is quite frankly necessary (in other words: important). Hang on I know we all want to speed but to say in front of the race it’s really the matter of having stamina.
If that wasn’t enough and you want to know more about product validation I am exclusively sharing my previous article with you right below! Keep on reading! And if you have liked this article please feel free to share and leave claps for me to surface the article for others.
The Gap between your Product and the Product Validation
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It’s really the time for me to buckle down and find out how on earth am I going to get my product validated.
If you don’t know me and this is the first time you reading my article I am Jayson Dombele a 16-year-old entrepreneur who has founded Documented Press January 2016 and along with that, I am an app developer and a content marketer. If you want to see more of my work check the bio below the article (But, do it when you are done reading my article! It’s greatly appreciated!)
I have been working on PitchUs for about 3 months now and I came from a long way. I have been through many up’s and down such as learning how to develop apps and finding the right resources and people to work with — it’s such a hassle.
Now I have been wanting to start developing my app with a friend of mine because I just want to bring out another product to the world.
What really kept me motivated was Documented Press success reaching 18.3k readers over the course of two years.
So, I just really wanted to build my app!
But, I came to realize that I could achieve much more if I pivot a couple things.
One thing I learned from Documented Press was that I didn’t really know much about the business side of it.
I, just liked writing about what’s going on in the world and loved technology so I put those two things together and boom luckily I got 18.3k?
But couldn’t I have gotten more even faster?
Of course, I could’ve! I just didn’t know what the f*ck I was doing.
I was a 14-year-old entrepreneur without knowing it really.
Product validation is what I was missing.
I didn’t bother asking any people to give any feedback about the site. I just kept publishing as much as I can and did my best to cross-promote the site.
I seemed to go the right way but in whatever you do you’d need to gather all the tools so you can squeeze out as many benefits you can.
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Now, as a 16-year-old entrepreneur, I have now come back with an abundance amount of knowledge now and know how to play the game a little better.
Lately, I been trying to find people to validate my product and find out if it’s something people would want and if I should pivot my idea?
The problem is that I don’t even know where to start?
I recently watched a Hustle Gurus video featuring the founder of Heray Spice (Mohammad) and he talks about how he constantly hustled for his business as he did door to door sales every day.
Hustle Gurus show!
Mohammad quota was to talk to 100 businesses a week.
And, imagine that is door to door sales. No phone calls or any communication.
Mohammad got me to think twice and go right back to finding potential costumers to validate my product.
I came to learn that I don’t need to stop just because an obstacle got in the way.
No matter how big or how small the problem is an entrepreneur should bulldoze through.
Thank you for reading my article! Feel free to leave a comment or learn much more about me below!!
More about Myself:
I’m 16 years old | Programmer |CEO of Documented Press| Content Marketer
- If you interested in following up with me check my site: https://jdombele.wixsite.com/jayson
- If you interested in my PitchUs startup please check this link below: https://jdombele.wixsite.com/pitchus
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Any questions, business inquiries or concerns please feel free to email me @: [email protected]