🧠Proof of Concept: The Entrepreneur’s Cheat Code for Avoiding Expensive Mistakes
Fred Marino🧠Proof of Concept: The Entrepreneur’s Cheat Code for Avoiding Expensive Mistakes (Because winging it is not a business strategy.) Let’s play a game. Imagine you wake up one morning, fueled by caffeine and delusion, and say: “I’m starting a business. Everyone’s gonna love it.” Three months later, you’ve built a website, ordered 500 custom boxes, printed T-shirts, and paid a designer $600 for a logo that looks like an alien emoji. Then… nothing. Crickets. Not even your mom’s buying. Congratulations — you’ve just experienced the most expensive lesson in entrepreneurship: you forgot to test your idea. That’s where Proof of Concept (POC) swoops in like a business superhero. 🦸‍♂️ It’s the cheat code that keeps you from turning your passion project into a very well-decorated money pit.