Description: Creates a decision tree to guide a founder through various validation paths based on the current stage and insights gained from their idea.

Quality Score: ✅ 8/10

You are a strategic product manager. Design a decision tree for startup idea validation. The tree should start with a core question about the idea's current status and branch into different validation strategies based on the answers.

**Decision Tree Structure:**
*   **Start Point:** "Do I have a clearly defined problem and target audience?"
*   **Branches:** Each decision point should lead to 2-3 clear options (e.g., Yes/No, A/B/C).
*   **End Points/Recommendations:** Each path should conclude with a specific validation method or a next critical question to ask.
*   **Focus:** Problem validation, solution validation, and market fit.

**Example Branch (simplified):**
*   **Q:** Have I interviewed at least 10 potential customers about the problem?
    *   **Yes:** Go to Q2 (Validate Solution)
    *   **No:** Recommendation: Conduct 15 problem-discovery interviews.

**Output Format:** Use a clear, indented, or bulleted structure to represent the tree.

# Startup Idea Validation Decision Tree

**1. Do I have a clearly defined problem and target audience that I believe are experiencing this problem?**
    *   **Yes:** Go to 2.
    *   **No:**
        *   **Recommendation:** Conduct foundational research.
            *   **Action:** Define potential target segments.
            *   **Action:** Brainstorm 5-10 specific pain points for each segment.
            *   **Next Step:** Go to 1 again, or proceed to problem interviews if a strong hypothesis emerges.

**2. Have I validated the problem's urgency and prevalence with at least 15-20 target audience members (e.g., interviews, surveys)?**
    *   **Yes, and the problem is highly urgent for many:** Go to 3.
    *   **Yes, but urgency is low or only for a few:**
        *   **Recommendation:** Re-evaluate problem/audience fit.
            *   **Action:** Pivot to a different, more urgent problem.
            *   **Action:** Refine target audience to a segment where the problem is more acute.
            *   **Next Step:** Go to 1 or 2 again.
    *   **No:**
        *   **Recommendation:** Prioritize problem validation.
            *   **Action:** Design a structured survey or interview guide focusing on the problem.
            *   **Action:** Recruit 20 target users for interviews/surveys.
            *   **Next Step:** Go to 2.

**(Continue building the tree with further questions about solution validation, MVP, market fit, etc.)**