How I am getting feedback for my startup idea.
Since feedback from family and friends is usually biased, I had to learn new ways of getting feedback from total strangers.
I hope this post is helpful to other entrepreneurs in discovering the variety of ways they can receive initial feedback about their startup idea.
I am developing a site that provides historical background to our news. I am passionate about this project because our news generally lacks perspective and context.
At the outset, as an entrepreneur I wanted to know if anyone else shares my passion about this project?
Essentially, I wanted to know if my project is a labor of love? A hobby? Or will others get all excited about it like me? And if they do, how would they want the ultimate product to look like — delivery platform, content, topics, presentation. Sorry, getting ahead of myself here. Those questions come a little later in the project.
The one thing I was sure about is that prodding my family and friends is really not the way to go. I know most of their personalities and most of them know mine. So there would be inherent biases in their responses. For example, I would likely discount the…
