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    - What resistance will they have to trying your product and how will you overcome it?
    - How does your product work in more detail?
    - How will customers and/or users find out about you?

    - How are you meeting customers?
    - What do you understand about your users?
    - Why do the reluctant users hold back?
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    - What is your growth like?
    - What's the conversion rate?
    - What are the key things about your field that outsiders don't understand?

    - What part of your project are you going to build first?
    - What problems/hurdles are you anticipating?
    - What have you learned so far from working on your product?
    - How much money could you make per year?
    - How big an opportunity is there?
    - Why will you succeed?
    - What, exactly, makes you different from existing options?

    - How many users are paying?
    - Why did you pick this idea to work on?
    - Do you have a demo?
    - Six months from now, what's going to be your biggest problem?
    - How much does customer acquisition cost?
    - What's the worst thing that has happened?
    - What competition do you fear most?

    - What do you understand that others don't about this space?
    - What is your user growth rate?
    - Why isn't someone already doing this?
    - What is your burn rate?
    - How will you make money?
    - What is the next step with the product evolution?
    - What domain expertise do you have?

    - Who might become competitors?
    - What is your distribution strategy?
    - How long can you go before funding?
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    ##### Product/User Definition
    - How are you understanding customer needs?
    - What are the top things users want?
    - Where do new users come from?
    - Who is going to be your first paying customer?
    - What resistance will they have to trying your product and how will you overcome it?
    - How does your product work in more detail?
    - How will customers and/or users find out about you?

    - How are you meeting customers?
    - What do you understand about your users?
    - Why do the reluctant users hold back?
    - How do you know customers need what you're making?
    - Who would use your product?
    - How will you get users?
    - What makes new users try you?
    - What has surprised you about user behaviour?
    - How do you know people want this?

    ##### Team / Company Dynamic
    - Who is "the boss" or key decision maker?
    - Who in your team does what?
    - Will your team stick at this?
    - Who would be your next hire?
    - In what ways are you resourceful?
    - Are you open to changing your idea?
    - Who would you hire or how would you add to your team?

    ##### Business development / Market info
    - How have you raised funding?
    - What's new about what you make?
    - What is your growth like?
    - What's the conversion rate?
    - What are the key things about your field that outsiders don't understand?

    - What part of your project are you going to build first?
    - What problems/hurdles are you anticipating?
    - What have you learned so far from working on your product?
    - How much money could you make per year?
    - How big an opportunity is there?
    - Why will you succeed?
    - What, exactly, makes you different from existing options?

    - How many users are paying?
    - Why did you pick this idea to work on?
    - Do you have a demo?
    - Six months from now, what's going to be your biggest problem?
    - How much does customer acquisition cost?
    - What's the worst thing that has happened?
    - What competition do you fear most?

    - What do you understand that others don't about this space?
    - What is your user growth rate?
    - Why isn't someone already doing this?
    - What is your burn rate?
    - How will you make money?
    - What is the next step with the product evolution?
    - What domain expertise do you have?

    - Who might become competitors?
    - What is your distribution strategy?
    - How long can you go before funding?
    - If your startup succeeds, what additional areas might you be able to expand into?
    - What's the biggest mistake you have made?