I drew a simple diagram of the method some use to test market interest in a product (http://www.scribd.com/doc/74937130/Startup-Pretest).
How would you add to or modify this method?
good point. Hosting is not needed if using a launch page testing service. But it will necessary eventually to host the beta site.
The whole process seems challenging as the time for a email lead to go cold is short, while the time to develop the beta MVP site is longer, so I am very interested to learn how to address this - which means keeping the contacts warm without turning them off.
thanks for that-will note for revision. kickofflabs looks very impressive. those are three options vs coding a launch page yourself, since they provide a platform for testing.