Testing your solution

Kickstart01, Kickstart Romania  ·  Monday 23 November 2026  ·  2 hours, online

Put your prototype or MVP in front of users. Find out whether it delivers value and decide what to improve.

52 slides. Arrow keys move. O opens the overview, F goes full screen.

The Monday workshop of week two of Kickstart01, run online with Alexandru Daicu for founders holding a prototype or an MVP they built themselves. Two facilitators because there are two kinds of product in the cohort: Alexandru comes from B2C, where you can put a prototype in front of fifty strangers by Thursday, and Aleodor from B2B and enterprise, where five users may be all the users there are and one of them signs the contract. The promise is narrow on purpose: everybody leaves with one page filled in, a real person's name on it, and a time in their calendar.

It opens on the difference between a demo and a test, which comes down to who is doing the talking. Then the two questions people collapse into one: does this matter to them, and can they work it. A prototype can be perfectly usable and completely unwanted, and that is the expensive corner, not the frightening one.

The rest is the page, box by box. Who you are testing with, described by what they have done rather than how old they are. What they already do instead of using your thing. A value question answerable from something that already happened, because nobody can predict their own future behaviour. A task that is a goal rather than a set of instructions. The six things to say when somebody gets stuck, and the three that end the test. The running example is a made-up co-founder matching app, so nobody in the room has to defend it.