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The "idea/market validation" landing page + $100 advertising budget is a key concept from the "Start Small, Stay Small" book the author mentioned. It's saved me from wasting time/money a few times so far, and I'm sure it will continue to do so in the future!

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Since starting my own business recently I've been doing a lot of networking at various tech/entrepreneur events. It continues to amaze me just how many people with an idea, or even several months into building product, have yet to talk to a potential customer.

Read the book and launch my own landing page: http://www.getcueapp.com/. Spent around $120 on adwords and had around 2% conversion rate.. I am not so sure about the quality of conversion because I didn't do the double opt-in method as suggested.

I really like the site layout! Would you mind sharing it? I'm looking for a base layout for an app I'm close to launching at the moment, actually.

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