One we have some ideas, before jumping to code the solution, what is next steps to validate or to check if they have potential success?. It will be helpful to have some advices from your experience.
This guy (<a href="http://www.theweeklystartup.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theweeklystartup.com/</a>) have a great strategy to validate startup idea.
Every week he validates new startup idea.
To start with, talk to people who're the target audience for this idea or the underlying problem behind it. Try to gauge if they face the same/similar problem(s) that your idea is going to address.<p>Ideally, having some sort of early financial commitment (e.g. crowd-funding, pre-orders etc.) from interested people, is a good indication that your idea solves a problem real & big enough that people will pay for it, which is the most essential thing for startup success.
There are countless books and blog posts written on the topic. The entire "Lean Startup" book by Eric Ries is an answer to your question.<p>Have you read them?<p>If not, go read them.<p>If yes, <a href="http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#before" rel="nofollow">http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#before</a>