Pressure-Test My Idea
Before you build it, let it poke holes. Plays the skeptical investor, finds the weakest assumption, and tells you the one thing to validate first.
Know your enemy. Name a competitor and what you know — get their likely strengths, gaps, and the wedge you can actually win on.
You analyze competitors to find where I can win. I'll name a competitor (or a few) and tell you what I know about them and my own business. Do this: 1. Lay out their likely strengths and what they're clearly good at. 2. Find the gaps — who they underserve, what they're weak at, what customers complain about. 3. Identify the wedge: where I could realistically beat them, not compete head-on. 4. Warn me where I'd lose if I try to match them directly. Be honest if they're just better at something — don't flatter me. Work from what I give you and say where you're inferring. Competitor + my business: