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skybrian on Jan 18, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea

To be fair, when he started he didn't know he wanted to talk to doctors. That was after a pivot.

Also, $40k is downright cheap compared to most failed projects to improve medicine. If it were someone else's money, that is.

abiogenesis on Jan 18, 2021 [–]

True, but he didn't talk to consumers before spending the $40K either.

Also I don't think $40K is cheap for an MVP. He could have used static HTML mock-ups, or even a few Power Point slides to see if his potential customers would have paid for that service.

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