{"id":2956,"date":"2018-02-13T18:39:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T23:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/?p=2956"},"modified":"2018-02-13T18:39:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T23:39:51","slug":"questions-to-help-validate-an-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2018\/02\/13\/questions-to-help-validate-an-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions to Help Validate an Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today we were talking about key assumptions and how things can go terribly wrong when you don\u2019t properly troubleshoot your ideas before putting too much stock in them. I thought it would be interesting to think about what assumptions companies often rely on, and how entrepreneurs tested and validated those assumptions. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebalance.com\/question-key-assumptions-in-your-business-plan-1200853\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> contains a number of questions that businesses should ask of themselves, and I\u2019ve noticed, just through pitches and having a venture coach, that the ability to answer these questions, or even show that you\u2019ve thought about them, shows potential funders that you\u2019re serious about making sure your product will be valuable in the market. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we were talking about key assumptions and how things can go terribly wrong when you don\u2019t properly troubleshoot your ideas before putting too much stock in them. I thought it would be interesting to think about what assumptions companies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2018\/02\/13\/questions-to-help-validate-an-idea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2884,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2884"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2957,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions\/2957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}