FOLLOW UP: Validate A Business Idea In Five Minutes

Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Interview, Motivation, Online, Businessinterview, Education, Businesscoaching, Entrepreneur, Lifestyle, Income, Business

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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FOLLOW UP: Validate A Business Idea In Five Minutes In this episode of Join Up Dots, David Ralph dives into real listener questions from around the world about how to validate a business idea before wasting time or money. From knowing when to refine or walk away, to overcoming the fear of idea theft, getting honest feedback, and figuring out whether your passion can last the long haul — David shares practical, down-to-earth advice to help you move from dreaming to doing. If you've ever wondered whether your business idea will actually work, this episode gives you the clarity and confidence to test it fast and smart. Share this episode with anyone stuck in "planning mode" and spread the message using #JoinUpDots #EntrepreneurMindset #ValidateYourIdea Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review. Your feedback helps us reach more people and continue bringing you valuable content. See you in the next episode!

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0:00.0	Life shouldn't be hard. Life should be a fun-filled adventure every day.
0:05.0	So now start joining up dots.
0:07.0	Tap into your talents, your skills, your God-given gifts, and tell your boss, you don't deserve me.
0:14.0	I'm outta here.
0:16.0	It's time for you to smash that alarm clock.
0:20.0	And start getting the dream business and life you will of course
0:24.6	are dreaming of let's join your host david ralph from the back of his garden in the uk
0:30.7	or wherever he might be today with another jammed pack episode of the number one hit podcast
0:36.7	join up dots yeah good morning to you good morning to jammed pack episode of the number one hit podcast, Join Up.
0:39.4	Yeah, good morning to you, good morning to you and welcome to the Join Up.
0:43.8	Dot's podcast, yeah.
0:45.4	Now, if you are listening to this one and it kind of makes no sense at all, you've got to go back a few episodes because just a couple of episodes ago, we did an episode called How to
0:56.5	validate a business idea, the five-minute idea test. And the idea was that you can come up
1:03.6	with an idea and literally within five minutes work out whether it's a good idea to start a business
1:09.9	instead of ploughing into something,
1:12.2	spending six months, creating websites and then finding out that nobody wants it.
1:17.2	Well, since then, my inbox has had, I wouldn't say it was absolutely buzzing with your
1:23.9	questions, but we probably got about 30 emails or so.
1:27.0	And some of you are
1:28.2	already sort of testing your ideas. And some of you are still trying to work out if your ideas
1:34.0	are worth pursuing. And some of you, where you're just kind of plain overthinking it. So today,
1:40.8	I thought I'd just follow up with a few of the emails, six questions,
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