Use This PROVEN Formula to Validate Your Next Startup Idea

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          when I first started building startups I would spend months often times literally 6 months of nights and weekends writing code in the veritable basement it was actually a desk in my living room but you get the idea I wasn't talking to customers I wasn't talking to prospects cuz that really wasn't a common thing back then so then I would launch almost always to crickets it's a lot harder than you would think to build something that anyone cares about so if you're an aspiring founder with a handful of ideas but no idea what to do next this video is going to walk you through my two 20200 framework of how to validate your next startup idea so you don't waste months of your time building the wrong thing and if you stick around till the end I'll tell you exactly which books I would read to learn more about the topics I cover in this video I'm Rob Walling I've started six companies five of them bootstrapped I've written four books on entrepreneurship and I've invested in more than 170 startups so before I dig in to the 220 200 framework I'd like to talk a bit about startup validation because there's a lot of myths and miscon inceptions around it first thing I want to say is that you're never going to get to 100% validation you will never be certain that an idea will work no matter how much validation you do there's always going to be a shadow of a doubt and usually a lot more than that I like to say if you can get to 50 60 or even 70% certainty and even that's kind of a squishy thi…
          
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December 14, 2025
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December 14, 2025