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The Validation Gap

Christina Wodtke · 4 Jul 2026

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  1. But if you need to actually make money from your idea, it is still cheaper and faster to test it than to build it and hope you guessed right. The harder part of product development wasn’t building cost or time. It was answering the question, “Will anyone pay for this?”

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