No better way to learn than to do so great advice and post about strategies to do just this. Although I do wonder if this all can be realistically achieved in

No better way to learn than to do so great advice and post about strategies to do just this. Although I do wonder if this all can be realistically achieved in 6 weeks. The only thing I'd disagree with esp given the finite time available is that you should focus on meeting (or getting meetings) with potential customers and partners exclusively. Sure Meetups are great but the signal:noise ratio for content is generally low. Lots of startup platitudes like "build something people want" with little useful, credible, actionable insight. And then the ratio of quality people to wantrapreneurs and service providers often leaves much to be desired and makes the networking goal difficult. With regards to reading blogs, there is lots of great insight out there (many that you highlighted) but you can chew up your day reading through lots of entreporn as well which talks about the vagueries of the VC industry and other non-useful content which while interesting (and sometimes dramatic) doesn't really help you build or validate an idea/real biz.