skills/validate-business-idea/SKILL.md

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name: validate-business-idea
description: Stress-test a business idea before major investment using demand evidence, customer access, alternatives, economics, execution feasibility, regulation, and falsifiable experiments. Use when evaluating whether an idea, startup, product, niche, or business model is worth pursuing.
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# Validate Business Idea
1. Translate the idea into falsifiable customer, problem, solution, channel, pricing, and cost hypotheses.
2. Separate supplied evidence from assumptions; research unstable market facts.
3. Analyze alternatives, switching barriers, willingness to pay, distribution access, unit economics, operations, and compliance.
4. Run pre-mortem, competitor-response, founder-fit, and downside tests.
5. Design low-cost experiments with metric, threshold, budget, duration, and decision rule.
6. Return verdict: proceed, test, pivot, pause, or reject; include evidence, confidence, fatal assumptions, experiments, and next gate.
Never manufacture validation or recommend large commitments before critical assumptions are tested.