Early-stage founders waste time over-researching. You'll never have perfect information, and interviewing dozens of prospects just kills momentum. At some point you have to make a cheap bet and learn by doing instead.
Please remember also that this is not scientific, right? So there's always an element of your own instincts and guts. You cannot eliminate that from this process. The learning you get is never perfect. It's never— you'll never be complete. And so, you know, to the question of do I interview 3 or 100 because 100 would slow me down. If you find yourself interviewing 50 people, you're probably wandering the desert. So just realize, like, at some point you have to make a leap. And if the leap is not expensive or time-consuming, you know, that next experiment to try to get a new type of
