Will you pay 400€ to get feedback for your startup idea?
5 VCs and Market expert will privately give you feedback of your startup idea before you've started creating it. They will signal you pitfalls, problems, challenges of your startup and give you also a roadmap they'll do to get to the success your startup idea.
This will save you a lot of time and money.
Will you pay this service?
No.<p>I'm way more interested in what potential users think of the idea.<p>To be quite honest, I don't even care what a business type person wearing a suit has to say about my projects/ideas. I'm also highly skeptical about so called "Market experts".<p>Perhaps you might want to consider arranging your idea so that you take the money from VCs in exchange for meeting potential startup founders.
NO WAY. First of all, with the lean startup its easier than ever to validate our idea. There are <i>tons</i> of ways to get feedback on your idea. VC's and "market experts" cant predict whether or not my product is going to be successful based upon the idea.<p>Why pay some bozo to give me feedback when I can have my customers, people who actually use my app and are passionate about the problem.
No. If I spend €400 on this and get shot down, I've got nothing. If I spend €400 on an MVP that I can test in the marketplace, I've taken a step forward, I have an asset, and I've got something I can pivot from.
I could conceivably see myself doing that, but the people doing the reviewing would have to have some serious credentials, and I'd have to believe it would be more than a cursory glance and a cookie-cutter response.
No. I can get feedback for free, from people who actually matter (potential customers). I wouldn't bother with paying anything for "feedback", much less 400 Euros.
I would consider only if VCs have 100% home run record on their investment so far with investment sample size of at least 10. I don't think any such VC exist so NO.
Feedback from VCs/Epxpert would be an interesting perspective. However struggling startups would probably be more interested in hearing from potential users.<p>Shameless pitch:<p>We, at StartUpLift.com, are trying to build a very cost-effective (and often free) way of letting startups get feedback from users. Here are some examples of some great feedback received by offering small incentives to top feedback providers:
[Ninja Post - Offered $5 each to top 3 feedback providers]: <a href="http://startuplift.com/ninja-post-forum-software-for-a-web-2-0-world/" rel="nofollow">http://startuplift.com/ninja-post-forum-software-for-a-web-2...</a>
[Tom's planner - Offered $5 each to top 10 feedback providers]: <a href="http://startuplift.com/toms-planner-surprisingly-easy-project-planning/" rel="nofollow">http://startuplift.com/toms-planner-surprisingly-easy-projec...</a>