<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>What's More Important: Your Product Or Proof-Of-Concept?
I have had the luxury of meeting over 500 startups at Red Rocket Ventures over the last three years. And, typically, most of them approach me at the same point<wm> of view – what they call the “Proof of Concept (PoC).” And, with the funding, of the next million-dollar idea is to build a functioning product that can prove its value to the customers.

But, the question, of which is more important: a product or proof of concept?
My experience has seen both, and for a lot of startups, it’s this question would seem more important to prove the product, yet the timing has proven that proving it’s worth the wait.</wm> Not every startup that I’ve met, whether through PoC or not, has seen to the product