Rush: Pre-validating waitlists and prepayments creates a derisked startup draft
John Rush · I can't believe he shared these $1M+/year startup ideas · Jun 12, 2024 · at 6:20
Serial entrepreneur John Rush pitches a startup concept around selling pre-validated idea drafts with waitlists to technical builders.
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“If someone actually does this job of coming up with ideas validating the ideas with the users and then collecting a wait list, maybe collecting prepayments. And then you have the whole thing. Like there is an idea. There is there are like a hundred people who want it, maybe five paid for it. Then you have, you know, all the risks, not all the risks, but a lot of the risk is gone now. And then if there is someone who can build stuff, they could actually buy this little, you know like rough draft. It's like startup draft.”
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