Tools and techniques to quickly validate startup ideas

Question

Do any of you have any recommendations for tools and techniques to quickly validate startup ideas? Especially the ones that you don't have connections for. I am interested in AI ideas that could potentially help other industries but I have no means to validate how painful the problem is. Some of the approaches that I am considering:- Post a job posting to recruit some employees and gather information from them (and pay them for their time) - Create a landing page and advertise it to the right target audience - Reach out to people through LinkedInAny other tools, techniques, recommendations, etc., or even suggestions on how to make effective use of these strategies?(throwaway because my main account is easily identifiable to work colleagues)

smoldesu · Accepted Answer

I'd be very careful about implimenting AI in a field you're wholly unfamiliar with. It sounds like you've got a solution that's looking for a problem, so at the very least I'm glad you're trying to validate it. On the other side of the coin though, there is a massive chance you could miss your mark, or worse yet, exacerbate issues that are already present in AI and (further) threaten the credibility of AI-based products.

neurokinetikz · Answer

Make a list of risky assumptions. Sort by impact on being wrong about them. Now you have a list of the riskiest assumptions.
Test those assumptions with experiments (google ads, landing pages, etc) that provide data. Set a bar for success. Run experiment.
If results > success, move on to the next riskiest assumption. If results < success, form a new hypothesis, rinse, and repeat.