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Take a look at many of the startup ideas on our website, pitchups.com, where anyone can submit their startup idea or pitch and get feedback and comments from others. Some of these ideas may be of interest to you. And I am sure many of these startups would welcome an experienced entrepreneur to collaborate with and help them take their ideas to the next level. Our vision is to make pitchups into a community and ecosys…
Second album syndrome eh? :) Read everything James Altucher has written: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/ He's been around the block a few times, but wears his heart on his sleeve.
"I don't have any obvious or immediate itch to personally scratch" Put yourself into the shoes of someone else and fix their biggest problem. Can't think of one? Go to a non-nerd party and ask around, "What's your biggest problem?".
If you're in NYC send me an email at kevinlordbarry@gmail.com. I have an idea kicking around I'll be happy to share with you.
I'm located in the SF Bay Area but I'd still love to connect. Will shoot you an email later.
What motivated you the last go around? Was it $$$ or the idea?
Read this transcript. Maybe it will inspire you. It inspired me. http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/speechesandarticles/a_speech...
What motivated you the last go around? Was it $$$ or the idea?
Neither. It was originally developed as a solution to solve my own problem. The intention was never to create a startup out of it. It wasn't until a few months later that someone pointed out that I should run with it as a startup. The rest is as they say, history...
I'd love to work with someone who has done it before so if I can motivate you, that would be awesome :D
If you ask me (and I think you did!) this is kind of a mini-burnout. Take a vacation - a real one. Don't think about anything, just take a month in Sicily or something. Meet some new friends who aren't in the startup scene. Go hang out with your dad, or some cousins. Disengage. Then come back. I'll bet you'll find you're more excited.
Thanks Vivtek, I honestly don't think it's being burnt out. After my last startup, I did take a leave and traveled for a bit. I think it's really more of, the ideas I'm coming up with or encountering are just not very interesting to me personally.
I've gone through this type of phase in the past. It's usually stress or lack of sleep, when it happens to me. In times when I'm happy and well-rested, I always have a background idea I dearly want to pursue.
Maybe you need to engage in creative procrastination. Find something boring you need to do for a while, then sneak time to have and work on your ideas!
Then, too, if I don't have a flagship project (so to speak, by which I mean a specific project I want to achieve) then I usually work on support structures that it would have been nice to have the last time around. Kind of a sharpening of my tools for the next job, I guess.
If you like Square, then try to build a bitcoin billing? :) The bitcoin market is relatively small now, but it's growing very fast.
Betting on such a small and unproven platform doesn't give you very good odds in my opinion. People who've been around the block a few times are usually looking for a bit more certainty than that. Not that anything is certain in the startup world, but this seems beyond risky/crapshot. My 2 cents...
the process of finding things you like takes time. be aware of your state through the process and learn from it.
solve the problem correctly once, and you wont ever have the problem again.