You know what sucks about starting a business? You know how sometimes you have an awesome idea and then you get so excited you want to tell everyone about it, but then you realize no one will care until it exists and is validated as something others want or need.

How do you get around this problem? In the past i would tell you something like... Start by asking yourself, “can I afford to lose money on this product, service or idea?” This quickly eliminates a lot of ideas. By giving yourself a way to at least start the investment without losing money, you’ll eliminate at least 80% of the “no one cares” opposition. To verify that this is the case, ask someone else, like your spouse, a friend, or coworker if they would be interested in what you’re creating and interested in it enough to come help you if/when your business fails. If the answer is a strong, “yes,” the investment won't be a bad one, but you need to make sure you have a good backup plan. Failure at startup is part of growing and achieving success, so just survive it!
Don’t let the “no one cares” excuse deter you from your dream of starting a business. You have plenty of motivation and a great ability to learn. You’ve already figured out what goes wrong in business; you just have to learn how to overcome the obstacles. Most people who are so confident they cannot lose money on an idea will give up without trying. This describes you! i would ramble on that the difference between succeeding and not succeeding in starting a business comes down to momentum, focus and learning from your mistakes.
Focus.

But now, i am little more sensible than that, while not everything i would have advised in the past would be incorrect, it is still inefficient.

I have a much better framework for taking on ventures.

There are two different main methods for getting things done in business
(1) Plan and Decide and (2) Create and Try. Which one do you want to focus on? Focus on the process you’re going through to get from plan to execution.

Learn to fail before you invent! Inertia determines who succeeds and who fails. No one can predict if you will fail – you just have to decide if you want to make that effort and do it.

Or how you fill up that day job that you hate, so that you can quit your 9–5 job and get really, really rich. But there’s always a flaw in your plan. See, you don’t actually have anywhere to live while building and selling a business that you are starting.
The thing is, freelancing sounds exciting. You get to sit in your pajamas and write a thousand-word article about excising fat vampires from the earth. Plus, if this venture goes well, you will be that freelance “God” who Massively Overpriced Tables Will Never Exist Again.
Sounds great, right?
But it’s not because you’re some absentee billionaire living off the self-help rhetoric of people who want you to believe they have extraordinary entrepreneurial acumen. You’re just a human trying to hustle on the side while also balancing a family and caring for yourself.

this is the ache-type of the entrepreneur, a silly one if i might add. things are different now, Its much better to fail at an idea fast, no countless hours coding needed or even more than $5 on building a scrappy product. See, acquiring paying customers is the most important thing in the beginning of a venture, willingness to pay is super important. Now the way to get there needs to be quick, glue a couple of things together and get your idea out there to the world. Thats why i curated a list of tools to get product ideas out into the world and validate as fast as possible.