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We can tell if you'll build your idea before you know.

Our data shows the profile most likely to move forward.

Everyone is building in SaaS. But it's the hardest to start. Here's why.

Founder data from 10 countries shows the pattern.

The Way Most People Generate Startup Ideas is Backwards.

Our data shows common mistakes. Are you doing this?

We have been sitting on this for a while.

After three years it felt like time to share it.

One profile in our data keeps moving their ideas forward. Does it sound like you?

This was surprising.

100 people are building the same thing as you. Now what?

But most of them won't matter. Here's what to do.

It's happening: The one-person team era has started.

What your job will look like very soon.

Everyone is Building. Almost Nobody is Doing This.

How startups like Replit actually got their first users.

We analyzed 300,000 founders. You're overthinking it.

You already know enough to start.

Your best startup idea might be hiding in your free time

We measured it. Narrow expertise wins.

"Wouldn't this be cool" cost me 12 months and too much money.

Our data shows you could be headed in this direction too!

Welcome to the Startup Graveyard. Is your idea here?

Which idea categories die quickly, according to our index.

Founder ideas are scoring higher. Something shifted in January.

Did we make founders better, or did AI?

We analyzed 300,000 founders. Here's what actually moves ideas forward.

Three years of behavioral data, finally in one place.

What to do in the first 10 minutes after validating your idea

Plus, live founder data and what categories are hot.

Every Company Added AI. Now They All Look the Same

Companies are erasing what made them great. My observations

Founder questions about customers and VC plus startup data.

We Tracked When Startup Ideas Turn into Action

What the data shows

You Can Turn Any Interest into a Business

And This Week's Founder Data.

I think I figured out why most people don't move their ideas forward.

It's NOT the idea. It's something else.

AI Business Ideas: How to Find Ideas That Actually Work

How to Validate a Business Idea

Test Your Startup Idea: A Data-Driven Guide

How to Start a Startup in 7 Days. With an AI Tool to Help.

Data: Most ideas die before anything happens.

The Answer is: Simplicity!

Plus a book recommendation and an AI tool to help you.

The First Founder Intent Index

Real behavior from startup idea validation

Start Here: The Startup Exploration Map

Framework of questions founders usually answer first.

What Happens When Founders Explore Ideas More Deeply

Two levels of engagement and what they mean for founders.

Should I Start a Business? The Signs You're Ready

Founder data predicts who is ready.

The 5 Types of Startup Founders (Based on Real Behavioral Data)

Based on real startup behavioral data.

Why Certain Founders Hesitate More Than Everyone Else

The data behind startup hesitation and what it means for you

AI Startup Ideas: How to Find and Safely Test Them

How to Use AI to Find Opportunities and Validate

The Simple Habit That Increases Your Odds of Building a Startup

What 30 Days of Behavioral Data Reveals About Startup Readiness

Where the World’s Next Founders Are Emerging

New data reveals which countries generate the best ideas, and build

Why Founders Keep Circling the Same Startup Idea

Our Data: The commitment loop behind early-stage startups.

The Truth About Starting From Zero that No One is Telling You.

Why Idea and Effort alone aren't enough.

Startup Formation Data: After Hundreds of Thousands of Startup Ideas, The Same Mistakes Still Repeat.

What 3+ years of formation data reveal about early-stage founders.

Why Most Founders Choose the Less Effective Path

The emotional choice founders make on day one.

Why Being Early Still Matters.

The Part of First-Mover Advantage People Miss.

The Moment When Iterating an Idea Stops Working

New data on how founders get stuck refining instead of moving forward

New Data: B2B vs B2C Ideas and the Execution Gap

Included: 200 AI income ideas for entrepreneurs

Why good ideas quietly die. Startup founder data.

I want to help FIX YOUR IDEA today!

Why "boring" ideas win.

The data behind why these ideas get built

Ranking at the top of Google: what that position is worth for us

Plus: How we did it and how you can replicate it

Startup data: Why “almost ready” is the most dangerous stage.

Early data on false readiness vs real execution.

Why most startup ideas stall (and what usually fixes them)

Our data shows what would change the outcome for founders

Startup Data: What the 40% of founders who move forward have in common.

Live data on who actually takes the next step

I built you a startup roadmap.

We condensed a full startup accelerator into 5 simple steps.

35,000 Credits to Build your App or Website (Val Member Offer) + New Live Data!

Live Data on Founder Motivations, Mistakes, Ideas etc.

Guide: How to Validate Your Idea in 2026.

Solo Founder or Company Worker. 10 Easy Steps.

Startup Data: The 5 Signals that Predict Success. What's Hot and Founder Wins!

See what categories are cooling, what founders miss and more.

A Startup Scam I Need to Warn You About

Startup Data: Founder Blind Spots, Misalignment, Clarity and Strong Ideas!

How to Validate. What's working and what you should do ASAP!

Idea Validation Test: Results of our Customer Interviews. Now What?

Surprised? I think we found an OPPORTUNITY!

Startup Data: We’re Seeing Better Startup Ideas Form!

Here’s what changed in founder thinking this week.

Let's Validate a Startup Idea Together, Right Now!

✅ YOUR VOTE decides which idea gets validated with real customers.

The 7 Surprising Signals That Predict Great Startup Ideas

PLUS: I'd like to feature YOU next week! :) And a survey (please help!)

We Analyzed 2,621 Startup Ideas. Here’s What Most Founders Get Wrong.

Before You Pick Your Startup Idea, Read This First!

Startup Data: What changed over the weekend and what founders are missing.

See what's hot, what's cooling and where opportunity is for you.

Startup Opportunities: What's hot and what's cooling? What to avoid?

Plus, founder blind spots. Here's what to look for.

Startup Data: Founder Blind Spots. What we all Need Help With!

Here's your gameplan: What we've been missing and what we need to do.

Startup Data and Analysis: Here's what happened in startups over the weekend.

Here are the trends and opportunities in the startup space.

Startup Trends Friday. Our early data about new ideas, trends and opportunities!

Our data shows trends before they happen, and what you could build today.

Please don't miss this step when validating your idea.

Make sure you aren't targeting the wrong people.

10 Mistakes that Kill New Ideas

The decisions you make after inspiration are very important.

Did you see the 64-yard field goal the Dallas Cowboys' kicker made?

Plus: Help one of our members validate her startup idea!

✨This is how ideas are validated in 2026 and beyond.

🤖 AI changed everything. You're probably validating the old way.

Validator AI Community Projects

Play VC for a day — which would you back with your funds?

Visibility for vibe-coded projects

Drop your link here and let's get you some traction.

This is all that matters.

Please do this if you want a chance at succeeding.

How we gathered 1,000,000 people here.

The exact path - and how any founder or platform can follow it.

Is Your Website Agent Ready? Search is Changing Forever.

Search is Changing Forever. This is How You Stay Ahead of What's Coming.

I used to roll my eyes at “wantrepreneurs.” Here’s what changed.

🤑 Plus: Software to find ideas and launch side hustles!

How I'd Rig the NBA Using a Single Employee

Quick thought today on success

🕹 The Productivity Cheat Code that Solopreneurs and Small Teams Have.

🏃‍♀️ The science and stories of how tiny teams outpace the giants.

📈 We're FINALLY Ranked #1 on Google! Here's How We Did It.

🏆 Plus: a new Startup Score Leader! Can you beat his score?

🎓 Is an MBA Worth it? The $100,000 Lesson I Learned at Business School.

How I Stumbled into a Job, and What I Learned about Startups.

🤑 The Quiet Billion Dollar Market That's Made a lot of People Rich.

🤩 And the $50million opportunity hiding in plain sight. INSIDE!

🚀 You Asked. We Built It: Validate and Score Your Startup Idea in 15 Seconds!

Plus: Our partner Hostinger gets you online fast! + a Great Prompt.

The First 7 Words Will Make or Break You - This Kills Every Pitch.

Marketing, Sales, Pitches and Partnerships - any serious conversation.

🤖 This is How I Would Implement AI in Your Company. NOW.

🚀 Your CUSTOMER ACQUISITION ROCKETSHIP! Affordable and viral.

🚀 The 3 Questions that Spark Every Great Startup Idea.

💡 Our Idea Generator Turns Your Answers into Opportunity. It's FREE!

😲 You Won't Believe HOW MUCH MONEY This Simple Website is Making!

🚀 Plus: Get 100 Epic AI Prompts in This FREE Report.

😟 Still sitting on your startup idea? I can get you UNSTUCK right now!

🤑 Plus: 200 ways to make income using AI! Free Report.

😧 What Startup Founders Fear And How They Move Forward.

🤖 Latest Val Call Data Uncovers Worries, Fears and Motivations.

🚀 The TWO QUESTIONS you should ask before you launch something.

👍 Figure these two out first (Val starts with these two as well).

📊 200,000 ideas analyzed. Here's what ideas YOU are working on.

🚀 From AI to Retail -- The Val 2024/2025 Startups Report is here!

🤷‍♂️ Exactly WHAT you should do after you get an idea. Here's the list!

❌ But, here is the MISTAKE that everyone makes.

⏱ 60 Second Startups! THIS is the ONE THING that matters when starting something.

🚫 Most people spend 90% of their time building - DO THIS instead.

📃 Our STARTUP ROADMAP is Now FREE! Get Yours Here!

🤖 Follow the path accelerators use - also, join our Discord!

🤖 Val AI Updates! 25 New AI Tools. B2B Embeds and MORE!

✅ Check out our NO CODE AI Tool Creator Platform + B2B Embeds.

🎯 The problem most people make when they start something.

📃 HINT! It has to do with your product roadmap.

📰 5 Pieces of Tech News + 5 Opportunities for You to Launch Something!

🤖 How to take today's news and build a startup!

Jobs to Be Done Framework. A new way to think through ideas!

Why it's important PLUS an AI Tool to make your own!

😢 Struggling to find a great startup idea? -- You might be missing this!

🤖 Plus our new Startup Ideation AI Tool!

🧱 Hit a WALL With Your Idea? Failing? Let's Talk About It.

📃 How you should approach it to stay motivated.

🙋‍♂️ The Single Best Tip I Can Give You About Building a Network.

🤖 Plus: We made a SKILL ASSESSMENT AI tool to help you!

👬 Here’s How to Get Real Feedback on Your Business Idea.

📄 PLUS: 100 Side Hustles You Can Run! FREE Report.

👬 Let’s Break Down Competitor Analysis Together—Start Here! + an AI Tool.

🤖 All About Competitive Benchmarking + WHY It Matters.

👬 All About: Customer Personas. Why They Matter PLUS an AI Tool!

🤖 Everything you need to know + create your own for FREE.

🤖 Check Out 5 New AI Tools We Created In-House

🤖 Built with our fast-build tech—amazing things are coming!

🕹 Startup Tycoon Game. Day 7! Final day: Presenting the idea to brand partners.

✔ VOTE: What should Pete have done differently?

🕹 Startup Tycoon Game. Day 6! Landing Page Results.

📃 Plus: Community Skills Exchange, Knowledge Bank and more.

🕹 Startup Tycoon Game. Day 5! Setting Up Our Landing Page

📄 VOTE and we'll see how our landing page did tomorrow!

🕹 Startup Tycoon Game. Day 4! We have a product plan - it's time to show people.

🕹 Startup Tycoon Game. Day 3! Validating with Your Audience

✅ Today: Validating with your audience.

🕹 Startup Tycoon Day 2: The Votes Are In! Let's Pick a Solution.

📖 Plus: More Reader's Ventures. Check out these startups!

🕹 Startup Tycoon Game. Day 1! Help Pete launch his startup.

📩 Plus: More readers' startups. SUBMIT YOURS FOR FREE.

🚀 Inside Our Readers' Startups: Real People, Real Progress!

Let’s collaborate to propel these projects to the next level!

💡 Have a Startup Idea? This Should Be Your First Move!

Before anything else—seriously, this one action is a must.

🚀 Launch Day: Build 5 AI Tools in 10 Seconds! NO CODE.

🤖 Our AI makes 5 tools that will capture your visitors, for free.

"🧩 What Worked: A Landing Page Tweak You’ll Want to Try Today"

From Product to Problem-Solver: A Key Landing Page Shift.

📩 Newsletter & Landing Page Owners: Email Me, I Have an Idea.

👍 Reach out if you have a NEWSLETTER or LANDING PAGE.

📃Startup Ideas: 7 Must-Knows + AI vs. Human Showdown.

🤖 Plus, Best AI Tool for Pages, Sites, & Decks

🤖 Startups: Interesting Startup Stories and AI Tools From Around the Internet.

🔍 I searched the web so you don't have to. Here's what's interesting today.

⏱ 60 Second Startups: Meet Sameer. He may know why your startup isn't getting traction! CASE STUDY.

😲 PLUS: A way to make money referring your friends to employers.

🙋‍♂️ How to get your first 10 users. The fastest way to validate, today!

📃 PLUS: 100+ prompts you can use at work in this FREE GUIDE.

📃 Startup Validation Step One: MAKE A LIST! EXAMPLE INSIDE!

👬 Plus: A FREE guide on maximizing your work with AI! Look 👀

☝ The ONE THING you need to show if you want to raise venture funding.

📃 If you are set on pitching and raising, you MUST DO THIS FIRST!

⌚ 60 Second Startups! EXACTLY WHAT to include in any pitch. + EXAMPLE

🤑 Elevator pitch, sales pitch, doesn't matter. Follow this format!

📄 Let's run a full Business Analysis for FREE right now. Do you agree? Disagree?

📺 Plus, I might be crazy 🤪 My 60 second AI startup analysis video.

🤑 OFFER: I'll Validate Your Idea with our AI, for FREE!

✅ Have an idea? Want to validate it? OPEN THIS!

🤖 NEW AI TOOLS! Roadmap + Chat + Analysis Report. Updates!

🤩 "This is the most confident I've felt about my idea!" - Jessica

🚫 DO NOT fall for this. Common scams to watch out for!

👀 HERE'S AN EXAMPLE of a scam video! Look.

🤖 2 New Startup Products Coming! FREE OFFER!

🎁 Survey Giveaway + Early Customer Tips!

🙋‍♂️ Accelerator Members: HOW CAN I HELP? And some new ideas!

📺 Plus, a funny video I made :D

😝 Startups: Your first version is supposed to be UGLY! Just ask Disney!

🏃‍♀️ This is how you should move forward.

📈 0 to 250,000 users. LESSONS LEARNED. Here's the startup roadmap!

💡 Plus a really nice AI tool to build your MVP website.

🤑 FREE! Let's look at the first module of our accelerator today.

📄 This is what you should do RIGHT NOW to move your idea forward.

📰 THIS should be your first product! Are you stuck?

💥 YES, it is this simple. With a real-life example.

🤷‍♀️ STUCK on your business idea and aren't sure how to move forward?

💡 TRY THIS. This helps most entrepreneurs get moving.

💡 Have a HUGE IDEA and NO CLUE how to move it forward?

🤖 You've probably been approaching it wrong. DO THIS today!

🤖 Accelerator members only: Try our NEW Co-Founder, for FREE!

🤑 $150 value... you get it for free if you email me. Hurry!

🤖 Discord Startup Discussions: You should be doing this NOW!

💡 Hint, it's NOT build a pitch deck. It's NOT build a product...

🤖 AI Startup Accelerator: Day 2. Finding customer pain points!

📈 Plus, an amazing AI TOOL to help find product-market fit!

⏱ 30 Second Startups: WHICH startup idea should you pursue?

💡 We have A LOT of ideas. Here's how you pick the one to chase.

🚀 Validator AI: We UPGRADED our Free AI Tool!

🤖 It's a FREE mini startup plan + a startup idea.

🎬 The Greatest Showman Movie Startup Lessons. Check this out!

🤷‍♂️ What we can learn, and apply, from the movie. Do you Agree?

🏃‍♀️ ACCELERATOR MEMEBERS: Changes, updates and a FREE offer.

🤖 Plus, we cancelled your recurring payment 😁

⏱ 30 Second Startups: One Big Idea

💡 Plus, How to Validate Demand for FREE With No Product.

⏱ 30 Second Entrepreneur : Deep Dive Wednesday!

🤖 Plus, Create a Pitch Deck Using AI With This Tool.

⏱ 30 seconds to be a better entrepreneur.

📃 1 idea, 1 quote, 1 piece of startup advice.

💪NEW FORMAT! 1 startup idea, 1 motivational quote, 1 piece of advice!

⌚ Become a better entrepreneur today in 30 seconds!

🔟 Reasons Why We Bail on Our Ideas. Let me HELP you!

🤖 Plus, Generate Your Pitch Deck with AI! 🤩

🔊 Let's talk about moving your startup idea forward!

👫 I know WHY you are stuck. Here's the answer!

🤷‍♀️ Startup Guide: The 10 Steps to Start!

🤑 Plus a new FREE feature!

🙉 You're being lied to about STARTUPS. Here's your MVP idea!

👎 Skip the MISINFORMATION. Do this instead!

🛑 DON'T start building your STARTUP yet. DO THIS instead!

📃 Here's the Top 10 list of WHAT TO DO right now.

🤖 QUICK AI Prompt: Create a FREE Startup Game Plan.

🏃‍♀️ Generate a 7-Day Plan of Action with THIS ONE PROMPT!

📰 The best PITCH DECK GUIDE w/ SCREENSHOTS of our deck!

🖥 Plus: A FREE course on how to be a freelance writer.

🏃‍♀️ Quick advice: WHAT to put in a pitch deck. And, SHOULD YOU pitch?

🤑 Plus a FREE AI Workshop! $99 value.

🤖 vs. 🤵 AI vs. Human. How to QUICKLY Validate Your Idea.

🏆 Who won? Plus a FREE Report on Selling with AI.

🤷‍♂️ Don't have an idea? Our AI will produce one for you in 30 seconds!

🤖 Here are the steps for your new idea! Check out what we came up with.

🙋‍♀️ ASK OUR AI: Come up with alternate solutions for your idea!

Plus: What you should be working on right now. 💪

😳 The WRONG Way to Start a Business. Are You Doing This?

😎 AVOID these mistakes! Plus, a VIDEO 📺

🤷‍♂️ DISCORD DISCUSSIONS! When to Start Spending $ and Building?

🔊 THIS is What You Should Do Next. Check it Out.

🤑 Val AI Has Our First VC Investors on Board! Game Changer.

🙋‍♀️ Standout Accelerator Graduates Will Be Introduced to VCs.

👬 Val AI Small Group Message. I need your feedback please!

🔎 Quick preview of what's coming. Thoughts?

✅ Startup tip: TELL PEOPLE what you're working on!

🙏 Plus: Shout out outstanding Val members! Look what they did 👀

🔍 Let's Explore HOW TO MAKE MONEY With Your Idea!

😍 Plus: NEW FEATURE! Your startup mentioned to 200,000 people.

It's HERE! Our AI-Powered Startup Accelerator. Open to Everyone!

It's the BEST WAY to put your idea into action. Check it out.

🚀 $12.8M Raised. AI Founder Helps Us with Idea to MVP and More!

📝 From Idea to Accelerator to MVP and Beyond.

🙅‍♂️ Oops, I messed up. What I SHOULD HAVE DONE, day 1.

📃 A few things I should have done differently... but I'm on track now!

🙋‍♂️ Join our Discord + Something cool is coming next week!

🤖 We're beta testing something new! Check out Discord for more.

🙋‍♂️ Join our Discord (FREE) and let's talk startups!

📭 Plus - our beta testers are killing it!

🙋‍♂️ BETA TEST our new product, for FREE. I need your input please!

📭 Simply open this email and reply and we'll get started.

📢 Starting up: Simple steps + an ANNOUNCEMENT

🔨 Plus a really cool AI tool we found!

🙋‍♂️ MY STORY: Getting started got me featured in 👉 NY Times, CNN, WSJ, Wired and more!

😲 How getting started can turn into something HUGE!

🔨 How to build a startup in 2023. Here are the tools!

🏃‍♂️ Let's get you moving. Do this, in order.

🤷‍♂️ NO IDEA where to start? These 5 AI Prompts Will Help!

👀 Look! Our AI can help you with ideas if you tell it your goals.

✌ Interview, Part 2. The #1 Reason Why Tech Startups Fail!

From a Tech Accelerator's CEO. Plus Your Unique Value Proposition.

🚀 Guest: CEO of a Startup Studio Shares the Gameplan for the Idea Stage!

What to do at the idea stage. Part 1.

🥾 Bootstrap Your Idea into Existence, TODAY! For Less $

Many of you are asking how to move forward, for cheap.

😱 Reasons Why You Should NOT Create a Startup.

Let's get this all out in the open.

😎 Are You an ENTREPRENEUR or an INTRAPRENEUR? Find out right now.

There's OPPORTUNITY in either path you choose. I'll help!

🚀🚀 Validator AI 3.0 Is Here! A Full Chatbot Startup Mentor.

Plus, a new look for the newsletter. Check it out!

Become an expert at validating startup ideas today. Do this!

Plus a few cool AI tools and we highlight a startup.

10 side hustles to monetize what's in your brain.

Plus other cool AI tools!

What I've learned: CORRECT vs WRONG way to launch a startup.

Plus, a simple trick to get early users. Do this!

2 Great Validator AI prompts to get the ideas flowing! Try this.

Plus, a Validator AI user's startup, their growth, our AI helping.

Cold emails: From embarrassing to super cool! The format you should use.

Plus, check out a Validator AI member's startup!

A really cool idea of mine that I proved out. Case Study #1.

What would you do differently + we highlight one of you!

Startup angel investment scam you need to know about. Urgent.

Plus: I want to highlight your startup in our newsletter!

Prove demand with $0 spent, in ONE DAY! Here are the tools.

Plus: Our AI takes a shot at this challenge as well.

How Startup Funding Really Works. The Truth.

Plus 3 prompts for our AI and get featured in the next newsletter!

Validator AI New Update! Even if you don't have an idea!

AI can help you at any stage now. Check it out.

Startup Advice: AI vs Aron... who gives the best advice?

Plus, a video of exactly how to startup!

Our AI will write your elevator pitch!

Here's the template for selling ANYTHING. Check it out.

Let's analyze a startup idea together.

And, how to get the most out of ValidatorAI

Today's Guest: VC and Startup Studio Director Mike Jones

Mike's studio has created Dollar Shave Club, Liquid Death and more.

Today's Guest: Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot Co-Founder

Discussing how to start, no matter who/where you are.

Today's Guest: Startup Studio Founder and VC Carey Ransom

Expert on WHAT you should do in the early days!

FREE Startup Lesson: Avoid Costly Mistakes When Launching

Plus: A Quiz and Let's Analyze a Startup Together

ValidatorAI Site Updates! AI Deep Dive Just Released + More

AI dives deeper into your idea + tik tok videos and more.

A startup course! Plus 20 ways to monetize a site.

0 to MVP course + monetizing a site.

Guest: Founder of a $1Billion Startup.

Discussing how to start on day 1!

Today's Guest: NYT Bestselling Author Diana Kander

Keynote speaker and author on validating startups!

How I Made $30,000 in Sales in 2 Hours.

You should replicate this with your idea!

Startups: What Do I Do Next After My Idea?

Here are the steps you should take next!

Validator AI Updates

We added steps you should take to launch your idea, plus a video on how to get started.

Jobs to Be Done Framework. A new way to think through ideas!

🥂 Top 10 Validator Newsletters of 2024. The ULTIMATE GUIDE for idea launch!

😍 EVERYTHING you need to move your idea forward! SAVE THIS EMAIL.

🚀 Product Launch: Meet Val - Your Startup Mentor!

"This is the future!" "HOW did you do that?!" "I am blown away!"