Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.

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Blakely was a contestant on The Rebel Billionaire and starred as one of the judges on ABC's reality television series American Inventor. She is the world's youngest self-made female billionaire. She also guest-starred on Free Radio in January 2008.

Sara Blakely (born February 21 1971) is an American businesswoman and founder of Spanx a multi-million dollar undergarment company. In 2012 Sara Blakely was named in Time 100 an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world assembled by Time.