Stop thinking up startup ideas [presentation]
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Stop thinking up startup ideas [presentation]
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Re: Stop thinking up startup ideas [presentation]
#2"If your pitch doesn't end with 'and the cops can't do shit' then your startup idea sucks"
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#3C-P-S looks like another approach to Lean Canvas. Good point - solve problems, don't create new.
Re: Stop thinking up startup ideas [presentation]
#4"If your pitch doesn't end with 'and the cops can't do shit' then your startup idea sucks"
I'm stealing that.
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#5Asking someone in advance whether they would pay for a hypothetical solution is a very erratic method to evaluate an idea.
Re: Stop thinking up startup ideas [presentation]
#6There's no formula for starting up and there's no one way to do it. For example, if you have a truly game changing idea, you don't need to go the MVP route. Over time, it will become visible. What's more important in this case is that you stick with it until it gets widely used. This approach won't work for a more bottom-up idea that is based on some observation about the existing market. Then you're better of with an MVP with successive refinement.
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#7"If your pitch doesn't end with 'and the cops can't do shit' then your startup idea sucks"
Considering where privacy (or lack thereof) is headed, that may not be such a bad idea. I'm thinking some ways of encrypted mobile-to-mobile communication, file storage, maybe even encrypted video.
I can picture some startup somewhere coming up with a mobile P2P network/overlay that leverages an ad-hoc wifi mesh of some sort (avoiding carrier data limits) that lets users share everything and anything with just a psudonym. Or maybe even just a randomly generated key as a URI (I.E. Tor).
I've yet to see a simple implementation that I can install painlessly that lets me send text, let alone more complex stuff. Any startup that can deliver all that in this surveillance-happy atmosphere will make a killing.
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#8"If your pitch doesn't end with 'and the cops can't do shit' then your startup idea sucks"
Considering where privacy (or lack thereof) is headed, that may not be such a bad idea. I'm thinking some ways of encrypted mobile-to-mobile communication, file storage, maybe even encrypted video. I can picture some startup somewhere coming up with a mobile P2P network/overlay that leverages an ad-hoc wifi mesh of some sort (avoiding carrier data limits) that lets users share everything and anything with just a psud…
Something like Silent Circle for iPhone? https://silentcircle
Re: Stop thinking up startup ideas [presentation]
#9Asking someone in advance whether they would pay for a hypothetical solution is a very erratic method to evaluate an idea.
This is after they are exposed to the MVP. At this point the solution isn't hypothetical, only the premium version is.
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#10These presentations irk me significantly.
I get that you need to work on existing problems that have users that will pay. I get that you need a business model. I get that it needs to be a market that is open enough.
But they rarely address how to generate ideas to work through. Perhaps I'm not entrepreneurial enough...but I refuse to believe that's the case. I get that you have to talk/observe users, but I don't know what market I'd like to engage and what I'd find interesting.
In short, I know programming well, but it doesn't mean a damn thing for creating my own products because I don't know what needs people have.