How Do You Validate You Can Implement Your Great Startup Idea?

My mind started racing. I was having a hard time trying to hide my excitement. Mike, the managing partner of a San Francisco based VC firm, had just asked me to help them start an analog semiconductor company. In other words, Mike’s fund was going to provide the financial backing for my new company.

Two weeks earlier, I’d been fired as a general manager at Micrel, and now I was being given the chance to do exactly what I wanted to do. How lucky could I be?