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Validate

Meaning in entrepreneurship & startups, with examples

/ˈvælɪdeɪt/verbCommon term

In entrepreneurship & startups, validate means: To check with real evidence, such as customer interviews, sign-ups or pre-orders, that an idea, a problem or a business assumption is true.

In Turkish: doğrulamak, teyit etmek, sınamak

How it is used

Founders validate the problem, the idea, the demand or the pricing. The noun validation is common too: idea validation, market validation. Strong validation means people pay or commit, not only that they say the idea is nice.

Example sentences

  1. We validated demand by taking 120 pre-orders before the first unit was made.

  2. Friends saying they like your idea does not validate it.

Common collocations

  • validate an idea
  • validate demand
  • idea validation
  • market validation
  • validate assumptions
  • customer discoveryThe early process of talking directly to possible customers to understand their problems and test whether your idea is worth building.
  • MVPMinimum viable product: the simplest version of a product that real customers can use, built quickly to test whether the idea solves their problem.
  • lean startupA method of building a company by testing ideas quickly with real customers in a build, measure, learn cycle, instead of following a long, fixed plan.
  • product-market fitThe stage when a product clearly meets a real need in a large enough market, so customers buy it, keep using it and recommend it without much pushing.
  • prototypeAn early model of a product, often incomplete or not fully working, made to test an idea, show how something will look or collect feedback.

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