…ed prospective users and customers about our product, we received overwhelmingly positive feedback. At one point, I posted on Facebook about a prototype of the service and was met with 200-odd likes. I don’t think I’ve collectively received that many likes in my entire history as a Facebook user. And then, when we launched our prototype two weeks later, we recruited exactly one active user — my girlfriend’s grandmother (thanks, Eva!).

From fiction to fact: What a Stanford startup class taught me about entrepreneurship and aging
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Aaron Saunders
1 min readApr 15, 2016

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Just gave this same advice to a student… they were basing the complete validation of the product on a survey where people said they liked it… no idea if anyone would pay for it and we’re ready to pay for iOS development of the product

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