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🧭 Price Before You Build.

A 15-page micro-guide to help founders turn early belief into early revenue — the real signal that your product deserves to exist.

Stop guessing. Start testing belief.

Pricing Before Product guide cover showing pricing validation framework for founders

💡 The Problem

Most early founders price way too late.

They build first.

Guess the price.

Hope it lands.

Then wonder why nobody buys.

The result?

• Endless "let me think about it."

• Ghosted calls.

• Months of revisiting positioning.

• A product built on assumptions instead of belief.

Because early pricing isn't about profit.
It's about truth.

People don't pay for features.
They pay for relief — and pricing is the quickest way to see whether the pain is real enough to fund.

⚙️ The Solution — Pricing Before Product

This micro-guide helps you understand the only question that matters early on:

"Does this problem hurt enough that someone will pay for relief — right now, even before the product exists?"

Inside, you'll learn the 5-Stage Pricing Guide:
how to test pricing before a product exists.

It's not another pricing hack.

It's a clarity tool.

A way to measure demand before you spend months building the wrong thing.

Turn belief into revenue.

Turn revenue into validation.

Turn validation into something worth building.

📘 What's Inside the Guide

A simple, fast, 15-page breakdown of:

The 5 Stages of Pricing Validation — from idea only to few paid users

How pricing works before a product exists

What to charge at each stage, across SaaS, B2C, B2G, DeepTech, Hardware

The Pricing Lenses — how to read the truth behind every yes/no

Leadership insights to avoid costly early-stage delusion

No fluff.
Just the clarity you need to stop guessing whether people will pay.

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🚀 Who It's For

This guide is for:

Early-stage founders validating ideas without code

Solo builders testing revenue-first concepts

Founders with users but no revenue

Builders tired of "people love it" but "people won't pay"

Anyone trying to price something that doesn't exist yet

If you're validating fast, building lean, and want to test truth before committing, this is built for you.

🧩 Why It Works

Pricing reveals something no survey, interview, or user test ever will:

Care.

When someone pays early, they're not rewarding your product.

They're funding their own relief.

This guide helps you:

Remove the fear of pricing too early

Run small, clear paid experiments

Replace optimism with evidence

Build with conviction instead of hope

Curiosity is free

Commitment is paid

And that's the signal you're looking for.

✍️ About the Creator

Shashank Rajurkar - Startup Coach and Founder

Shashank Rajurkar

Startup Coach & Founder, Startup-Side

I help early-stage founders validate ideas, generate revenue-first traction, and build products grounded in real proof — not assumptions.

Pricing is the simplest, truest validation tool founders have.
When you learn to use it early, you stop wasting time building the wrong things.

Start Charging Before You Start Building.

Get the Pricing Before Product micro-guide — free.
Learn how to turn early belief into the only signal that truly matters: paid proof.

Instant access — no spam, just clarity.

15 Pages

Simple & Actionable

15 Minutes

Quick Clarity

100% Free

No Hype, Just Truth