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__If there is just one thing you should learn, it is: Just speak to prospects and extract their pain, then sell the painkiller (before building the product). If they are willing to buy, do take their money and invest that money into building the product.__

This advice always seemed like a stretch to me. Does anybody pay for a product that's not ready yet?

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"Does anybody pay for a product that's not ready yet?"

Isn't kick starter build around that concept? If people think something is looking good and might help them considerably they might be open to pay for developmental costs.

Kickstarter isn't designed for business, but rather it is designed for art in the general sense (which sometimes has business applications), so I don't think Kickstarter is a good example.

Believe it or not, it happens, just look at the cases at the foundation

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