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This is overengineering taken to the max. Probably OCPD or waterfall methodology or something. While you're creating your 500+ page deck I will already be iterating and learning on my startup idea in a lean/agile way.

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Nothing wrong in that. But in research we have a thing called survey the already existing literature on the problem and checking what worked or didn't. If you want to learn by doing mistakes of your own, be my guest. Just know that it is expensive. Also if you aren't thinking that hard about your startup ideas, then most probably the VCs aren't either which means you get some free money to play around with and make mistakes as long as the music last. That is also a thing.

Maybe I am wrong, but I don't think OP is suggesting that you actually create all the PPT slides and document everything before building a prototype or otherwise taking steps to start building a workable product.

But if the idea isn't fleshed out enough where you think that you could go through all that trouble; then maybe you are jumping the gun.

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