You don't need months or years to validate a business idea, and taking that long is incredibly risky. Waiting to prove your business model can result in a lot of wasted time and money, but one entrepreneur recently discovered how to validate any business idea within a matter of days. This business owner shared the details on Reddit. "Could I get strangers to care about my ideas in less than a weekend?" the Redditor asked this question as a challenge.
"This idea of truly selling one to one, it really was our beginnings," she said during an interview for this article. "And then when Instagram started to pick up for us, where we were starting to build a community-it was because I would literally have conversations with anybody in the DMs, anybody in the comments. I'd be asking them questions, making sure they knew how to use the products, talk to them. They were asking about ingredients, I would do the full debrief, I was really having one-on-one conversations."
In May 2023, Olympia, an AI-powered assistant service for solopreneurs, began with a minimal viable product (MVP) aimed at supporting small teams without large marketing budgets.