Episode 706 | 2/20/200 Validation, Prior Art, and Designing by Committee (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In episode 706, join Rob Walling for a solo adventure where he discusses a variety of topics. He starts with why it’s important to both consider and credit “prior art” in business. Rob outlines his 2/20/200 idea validation framework used to repeatedly evaluate ideas. He also covers why, though there are some advantages, designing by committee has some significant downsides. Episode Sponsor: Is your outsourced development team dropping the ball? Maybe you’ve worked with a team that just couldn't grasp your vision and needed constant oversight because they weren’t thinking strategically. Or maybe you ended up wasting hours micromanaging, often needing to jump on late-night calls across massive time zone differences to get alignment. And in the end, they delivered a sluggish app with a frustrating UI that didn’t come close to the solution you had envisioned. If any of that sounds familiar, you need to reach out to our sponsor - DevSquad. DevSquad provides an entire development team packed with top talent from Latin America. Your elite squad will include between 2 to 6 Full Stack Developers, a technical product manager, plus experts in product strategy, UI/UX design, DevOps, and QA - all working together to make your SaaS Product a success. You can ramp up an entire product team fast, in your timezone, and at rates 75% cheaper than a comparable US-based team. And with DevSquad, you pay month to month with no long-term contracts. Get the committed, responsive development team that your business deserves. Visit DevSquad.com/startups and get 10% off the first three months of your engagement. Topics we cover: 2:37 – Learning from, and crediting, prior art 10:27 – The 2/20/200 Idea Validation Framework 16:03 – Be wary when designing by committee 21:09 – When to crowdsource feedback Links from the Show: Register for MicroConf US in Atlanta, April 2024 Do Things That Don’t Scale by Paul Graham David Sacks (@DavidSacks) | X Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham Episode 705 | From Bootstrapped to Mostly Bootstrapped Episode 628 | The 5 P.M. Idea Validation Framework Use This PROVEN Formula to Validate Your Next Startup Idea Validate Your SaaS Idea FAST (Step-by-Step SaaS Validation Process)✅ Start Small Stay Small by Rob Walling Metallica: Some Kind of Monster If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you! Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify | Google

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0:00.0	Is your outsource development team dropping the ball?
0:05.4	Maybe you've worked with a team that just couldn't grasp your vision and needed constant
0:09.8	oversight because they weren't thinking strategically.
0:12.7	Or maybe you ended up wasting hours micromanaging, often needing to jump on late-night calls
0:17.2	across massive time zone differences to get alignment.
0:20.6	And in the end, they delivered
0:21.7	a sluggish app with a frustrating UI that didn't come close to the solution you had envisioned.
0:26.8	If any of that sounds familiar, you need to reach out to our sponsor. Dev Squad. DevSquad provides
0:31.9	an entire development team packed with top talent from Latin America. Your elite squad will include
0:36.7	between two to six full-stack
0:38.4	developers, a technical product manager, plus specialists in product strategy, UIUX design, DevOps,
0:44.9	and QA all working together to make your SaaS product a success. You can ramp up an entire product
0:50.5	team fast in your time zone, and it rates 75% cheaper than a comparable U.S.
0:55.8	base team. And with DevS. Squad, you pay month to month with no long-term contracts.
1:00.4	Get the committed, responsive development team that your business deserves.
1:04.6	Visit devsquad.com slash startups and get 10% off for the first three months of your
1:09.8	engagement. That's devsquad.com slash startups.
1:14.5	Welcome back to another episode of Startups with the rest of us.
1:17.5	I'm Rob Walling, and in this week's episode, I do a Rob Solo adventure, where I'm going to talk
1:23.3	through a few topics, always bringing it back to being a bootstrapped or mostly bootstrapped
1:29.5	startup founder.
1:31.2	Before we dive into that, I want to let you know it's your last chance to get tickets
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