How to validate your B2B startup idea - by Lenny Rachitsky

👋 Hey, I’m Lenny and welcome to a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Subscribed Welcome to part two of kickstarting and scaling a B2B business. Here’s where we’re at: Part 1: How to come up with a great B2B startup idea Part 2: How to validate your idea ← This post Part 3: How to identify your ICP Part 4: How to find and win your first 10 customers Part 5: How to find product-market fit Part 6: How, and when, to hire your early team Part 7: How to scale your growth engine Let’s get into it. A huge thank-you to Akshay Kothari (COO of Notion), Ali Ghodsi (CEO of Databricks), Barry McCardel (CEO of Hex), Boris Jabes (CEO of Census), Calvin French-Owen (co-founder of Segment), Cameron Adams (co-founder and CPO of Canva), Christina Cacioppo (CEO of Vanta), David Hsu (CEO of Retool), Eilon Reshef (CPO of Gong), Eric Glyman (CEO of Ramp), Guy Podjarny (CEO of Snyk), J

👋 Hey, I’m Lenny and welcome to a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Subscribed Welcome to part two of kickstarting and scaling a B2B business. Here’s where we’re at: Part 1: How to come up with a great B2B startup idea Part 2: How to validate your idea ← This post Part 3: How to identify your ICP Part 4: How to find and win your first 10 customers Part 5: How to find product-market fit Part 6: How, and when, to hire your early team Part 7: How to scale your growth eng