Validating Your Ideas on Strangers

I'm sure the patrons at dive bars love businesspeople walking up and asking you to listen to their startup idea or review their designs for a corporate rebranding.

If you try this, be prepared for the bartender to tell you to stop hassling the customers, or to cut straight to the part where they kick you out of the bar.

> private, albeit very loud, conversation

Please don't do what this post says. As someone at a bar I would appreciate you leaving me alone without me having to assert my right to a private conversation.

This only works when strangers = target customer because there is no way a stranger would have the understanding of the pain you are relieving for someone when they dont feel that pain. Therefore, it can be better read as "validate your ideas on your target customer" which is kind of obvious.

A great shortcut to get banned by the bartender because patrons have told them you're harassing and/or soliciting. Bonus points if you try to make your case to the bouncer.

The guy re-invents chat-roulette 20 years later, and needed random people to tell him that was a bad idea?

when he asks you about his new idea for an app, just pretend you didn't hear him. if we all do it, eventually he'll leave

Actually, you can try seeking out your own brutally honest opinion about your own idea. Act like a stingy investor or a totally down-to-earth common man. You should quickly write down the terse half-line questions that your real childish inner self spits out, before they are drowned by the pitch from your refined outer-self.

You might want to limit this to geek-frequented bars in Silicon Valley only, as it is using strangers for your own financial benefits without reimbursing them for their feedback.

Also consider that disclosing your work in public means subsequent attempts to patent anything are toast (unless each stranger signs you an NDA first).