Tag: market research
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The Founder’s DIY Market Research Checklist is a 12-step action framework that walks you through every critical validation exercise — from pinpointing your customer’s exact problem and sizing your market with TAM/SAM/SOM, to running discovery interviews, testing willingness to pay, and mapping your go-to-market channels. Complete every item before you build and you replace expensive…
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Using LinkedIn for free B2B market research gives you direct access to competitor strategies, buyer priorities, and live market trends — all from the world’s largest professional network, at zero cost. This guide shows you exactly how to turn LinkedIn’s free tools into a fully operational market intelligence system that delivers insights your competitors are…
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Free market research tools every founder should know include Google Trends, Google Keyword Planner, Answer The Public, Reddit, SurveyMonkey, Statista, Think With Google, LinkedIn, Ahrefs Webmaster Tools, Google Alerts, ONS government data, and Typeform. These twelve tools cover everything from demand validation and competitor intelligence to market sizing and customer research — all at zero…
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To eliminate confirmation bias in startup market research, you must deliberately design your research to disprove your idea rather than confirm it — using falsification frameworks, designated sceptics, disconfirmation logs, and behavioural tests like fake door pages that measure what people actually do instead of what they politely say. The seven-step framework in this article…
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The founders who build products people actually buy interview five specific types of people: power users living the problem daily, reluctant users burned by existing solutions, budget holders who sign the cheques, industry experts who know where the bodies are buried, and churned customers of competitors who can tell you exactly why everything before you…
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A smoke test is a fast, structured checklist you run before every build — covering your environment setup, core user paths, infrastructure connections, and quality gates — to confirm your project is fundamentally stable before committing time and resources to deeper testing. Work through each check, mark any failures as blockers, and only proceed to…
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To validate a startup idea in 30 days, spend the first week defining your riskiest assumptions and mapping the competitive landscape, the second talking to at least 20 real target customers, the third running a live minimum viable test — a landing page, demo video, or pre-sale — and the fourth analysing your results to…
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Secondary research comes first. It builds the contextual foundation by analysing existing financial reports, market data, and academic literature so you know precisely what the market already believes and where the mispricing gaps worth investigating actually are. Once that foundation is solid, primary research — your original channel checks, expert interviews, and proprietary data —…
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If you’ve ever wondered how to use Google Trends for market research and whether it can actually give you an edge in the financial markets, buckle up — because this free tool is sitting right there under your nose, ignored by most traders, kind of like the gym membership you keep paying for but never…
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Good enough market research for startups versus enterprises is not the same thing — and confusing the two is costing businesses millions of dollars, missed opportunities, and more wasted PowerPoint slides than anyone should have to suffer through. One of the most mispriced assets in all of business — whether you’re a two-person startup operating…