[wonderingyogi]

I don't want to be too harsh because I am guilty of the same thing. The author is fearing shipping because he doesn't have customers. He is scared of failure. If he validated and found customers beforehand, he would be excited.

[aunty_helen]

Another guilty party here chiming in. Building software and getting it ready is the easy thing and only about half the journey.

A fear of failure, not knowing the next steps and not having the skills to do those steps keeps us in chains.

The worst part, when we do acquire those skills, we realise how difficult it actually is "shipping" and may decide it's not worth it for a particular project.

[moneywoes]

Validate without shipping anything, how? Surveys

[wonderingyogi]

This is something I have been thinking a lot about. I still don't have a definite answer. For me, I joined a company to learn about the B2B space because I had a idea that catered to that market. Through this experience, I was able to cross out a lot of wrong assumptions I had about the space. I still don't know if my revised idea works, but it definitely helped me from pursuing the wrong one.