I want to test my ideas, mostly ideas for technology projects and/or startup ideas. Doing scientific research is best but can be quite costly and time-consuming, so I assume it would be optimal to filter the ideas first in order to select the best ones for testing. I already do things like looking for problems and unintended consequences, looking for relevant studies, and showing them to people hoping to find flaws, but I would bet that somebody has created an idea review process that can be applied for even better preliminary filtering. It would be ideal if the process itself had been calibrated such that I could get the probability of an idea working if it has survived the review process. Finding out about processes that have not been calibrated in this way (or perhaps have a somewhat different purpose like locating as many problems as possible) would be better than nothing. I checked the Internet of course, but I am concerned because I don’t exactly know how to go about making that all-important distinction between marketing claims and processes that actually work. I could spend quite some time looking for evidence for various marketing claims only to discover that most of them are unsupported. Is there a gold standard in this area? If not, do any of you know of any idea review processes that you believe to be decent based on your understanding of one of more of: rationality, science, technology, startups, related areas?
I want to test my ideas, mostly ideas for technology projects and/or startup ideas. Doing scientific research is best but can be quite costly and time-consuming, so I assume it would be optimal to filter the ideas first in order to select the best ones for testing. I already do things like looking for problems and unintended consequences, looking for relevant studies, and showing them to people hoping to find flaws, but I would bet that somebody has created an idea review process that can be applied for even better preliminary filtering. It would be ideal if the process itself had been calibrated such that I could get the probability of an idea working if it has survived the review process. Finding out about processes that have not been calibrated in this way (or perhaps have a somewhat different purpose like locating as many problems as possible) would be better than nothing. I checked the Internet of course, but I am concerned because I don’t exactly know how to go about making that all-important distinction between marketing claims and processes that actually work. I could spend quite some time looking for evidence for various marketing claims only to discover that most of them are unsupported. Is there a gold standard in this area? If not, do any of you know of any idea review processes that you believe to be decent based on your understanding of one of more of: rationality, science, technology, startups, related areas?