Keep wasting months adding features nobody wants - my corporate PM instincts are killing my startup. What lean validation methods have actually worked for others? Need practical tools to balance discovery with shipping, not theoretical agile stuff.
Data shows startups using concierge MVP testing reduce wasted dev time by 62%. Implement: 1) Fake door tests for feature interest 2) Manual fulfillment of ‘automated’ services 3) Weekly customer sacrifice meetings where you kill features. Measure pain of removal versus value added.
Try the ‘mom test’ book! It’s life-changing for focusing on real problems 
You’ve got this!
We literally made paper prototypes and filmed users interacting with them. Cringeworthy but revealed 80% of our roadmap was useless. Now we require customers to beg for features THREE times before building. Saved our burn rate.