My Validation Checklist

I’ve decided to share this tool early on in this journey because it’s a crucial step in venturing out on a new project as a bootstrapper / Indie Hacker. It’s probably the most important step in building your business.

By leveraging a Validation Checklist in line with your goals, you’ll save weeks, months or maybe even years of wasted time. It also helps you prioritise between all of the ideas you might have.

In the video below, I take you through all of the questions I ask myself before kicking off a project AND I share why they are important. Watching it will help you understand:

  • Why some projects do better than others
  • What you should build next
  • Is your idea any good?
  • Will people care about your idea

Obviously, you’ll want to customise this for your own use, but copy and pasting most of the points I have and understanding the implications of them will be a game changer for you.

If you have a project already, this could help you answer questions like:

  • Why haven’t you made any sales?
  • Where can you find customers?
  • Is there a market for your product?
  • Do people care about your product?

Detailed walkthrough the checklist

Investing this time up front, could save you months of frustration and get you on track for building your ideal business, so I highly recommend that you digest my list and build your won as soon as possible.

During the video above, I mentioned one of my ‘tricks’ for finding your target market online, if you’re interested, you can watch that video here. For more content like this, make sure you subscribe via email on the right, checkout my YouTube channel and follow me on twitter.

 

Download My Current Validation Checklist

You can download the latest version of my checklist here – remember that you’ll need to customise it for your goals and objectives.

 

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New Beginning

I want to make the shift from Contracting to a product business. I want to do this to have a scalable income that I can maintain remotely. I intent on achieving this by creating a portfolio of digital products, primarily SaaS but if I spot the opportunity to build an information product I will.

I aim to build a profitable business that can reach $100,000 in revenue year 1 – 2020.

This is going to be difficult and, a lot of work. I hope to minimise wasted time and seize on the best opportunity possible by following my framework.

So why this site – I aim to test all of the theory I have built up over the last 13 years to see how well I understand what I have learned. The best way to do this, is documenting the ideas, putting them to the test, then refining them. Hopefully doing so publicly will allow others to benefit from the ideas and refine them too.

20 Mistakes You Don’t Want To Make In Your 20s

The most important things I learnt in my 20’s.

My friend Kwabena recently sent me a tweet with an article titled “20 Mistakes You Don’t Want To Make In Your 20s”, and suggested it would be inline with how I think.

As is often the case with Kwabena, he was right. I agree with most of the comments that my morals are inline with.

I read the post in the morning on the way to work and it has been on my mind since. While I agree with most of the comments I think the post left out some important things I have learnt.
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