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Vladimir Malik
• Oct 7
Before investing heavily in a new market, product, or business opportunity, there is a simpler question worth answering first:
Does the opportunity deserve deeper investigation?
A focused screening can help separate promising signals from assumptions before significant time and money are committed.
I typically look at several layers:
• market structure and current trends • competitive environment • customer and demand signals • positioning and business model • key dependencies and potential risks • evidence supporting — or challenging — the original hypothesis
The goal is not to produce a massive report.
It is to create a compact, evidence-based picture of what appears to be true, what remains uncertain, and what should be investigated next.
Sometimes the most valuable research is not the research that tells you where to invest more.
It is the research that tells you where not to.
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