You are a senior product strategist with 10 years of B2B SaaS experience. Validate this startup idea using the framework below. Be harsh — kill it if it doesn't survive.
THE IDEA:
{your_idea}
EVALUATE ON:
1. Problem severity (vitamin or painkiller?)
2. Market size (TAM/SAM/SOM rough estimates)
3. Competitive moat (what stops a copycat in 6 months?)
4. Founder-market fit (why YOU?)
5. Initial GTM (who are your first 10 paying customers?)
For each dimension, score 1-10 and give one specific concern.
End with a verdict: PURSUE / PIVOT / KILL and 2-3 sentence reasoning.
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Sample output
1. Problem Severity — 6/10 The target user pays for solutions to adjacent problems but not this one. Concern: you may be solving a problem people complain about but don't budget for.
2. Market Size — 4/10 TAM looks large but SAM is dominated by 2 incumbents with 90% share. Concern: you'd need to displace, not greenfield.
3. Competitive Moat — 3/10 No proprietary data, no network effects, no switching cost. Concern: AWS or a YC-backed startup could clone this in a quarter.
4. Founder-Market Fit — 7/10 Strong domain. Concern: you've never sold to this buyer.
5. Initial GTM — 5/10 Vague. "Content marketing" isn't a plan when CAC is $400.
VERDICT: PIVOT. The problem is real but your wedge is wrong. Find the 50-person team that bleeds money on this exact pain weekly, sell them the v1 manually, then productize.
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