As entrepreneurs we’ve been hammered over the head with the idea, that ideas are worthless without execution and follow through. But how do we know if our ideas are even good enough to pursue.

If you’ve vetted your idea and you think it may be a great startup idea, but you don’t have a team, one of the best places that you can go to vet the idea and get started is a Startup Weekend event. So how do you get to that point?

Founder Institute Founder and CEO Adeo Ressi has a structured approach to analyzing ideas. He shares it at most of the Founder Institute events across the country. Well now the Founder Institute has made that wisdom available to everyone via this infographic checklist below.

Passion, simplicity, revenue, customer knowledge, market knowledge, market size, secret sauce, vetting and killing and sharing your idea are all part of this important approach. You can dive more into these ideas below.

10 Rules to a Great Startup Idea infographic

You can find out more about Founder Institute and their programs across the country at fi.co 

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