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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sjMNPl-1PaAiNmFi5N9lcbTlCoA6PQ2WzTii-jmP4I0/edit?hl=en_US

Which books/online lectures etc would you recommend to understand detailed Economics like how it works locally/globally, GDP, debt, govt bonds etc

How do you go about getting customer validation before building a product?

You might know who your customers are but:

1) Cannot just walk into anyone's office

2) Emails could be as worse as - sent:recieved::100:1

What could be the other channels?

I was skeptic about using "Clients from hell" in the title but WTH, everyone knows about it. So, irrespective of the nature of your business viz. a B2B service, or a freelance, or a consultancy, how do you really deal with it?

Funnier the better. Just kidding.

This is probably one among the most cliched discussions but more often than not people just escape it either by talking in favor of it or against it. If someone seriously thinks that ideas are not worth a dime, then that idea should be out in public without any fear of being copied.

I personally think that ideas are more than a dime, unless it's an outright clone. And I am not saying it because of the fear of being cloned or copied; I am rather saying it because discovering/inventing a useful idea is so rare. So it's the scarcity which makes it valuable and not the fact that someone might steal it.

EDIT: Important point missed. The discussion applies more to the people who can implement their ideas on their own.