10 · Practice: the validation vocabulary

Fill in the missing validation term or the right choice. Spelling is forgiving; the explanation shows the rule.

1. 1. Steve Blank's rule — 'there are no facts inside your building, so get ___' — means real evidence comes from real people, not your head.

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2. 2. The human tendency to notice only the evidence that says you're right — made worse by an agreeable AI — is ___ bias.

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3. 3. Over-trusting a machine's output just because a computer produced it is ___ bias.

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4. 4. The realistic share of a market you could actually win in the near term is your ___ (3 letters).

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5. 5. The strongest early signal of demand short of a repeat sale is a ___ — someone putting money down before it's built.

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6. 6. Asking AI to 'imagine what 50 customers would say' produces fiction — never present synthetic answers as real ___.

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