"Build a better mousetrap" is one strategy I am trying to do. I guess the disadvantage is the market might be saturated.
How to Get Startup Ideas
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Re: How to Get Startup Ideas
#22I have a huge list of "ideas" in a text file that I add to periodically... I'm filled with ideas.
If I had millions of dollars, I'd hire tons of people to work on most of them. Some could be profitable, some are just good for the world, others are just interesting to me or are an area for science I think needs more exploring.
I don't have time for them all sadly. I need more time to execute. If you're really struggling to find good ideas, and you want to trust an internets person like me (look me up if you want) then ping me and I'll sell or give you one I guess!
Re: How to Get Startup Ideas
#23How to really get good startup ideas: steal them, and do it better.
This is actually not bad. In Shenzhen they shit on copyright. It's an open secret that anybody steals your ideas and it is actually intentional. They say ideas come cheap, but execution is the hard part. It's joked about that in the bay area if you have a good idea somebody steals it within a year. In Shenzhen it's stolen within a month; four times.
So they compete by executing well, instead of blackboxing their ideas.
Re: How to Get Startup Ideas
#24The first approach sounds solid but it's the kind of thinking that very easily leads you towards building a solution looking for a problem.
See Peter Reinhardts talk about product/market fit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6pl5GG8RQ4
Re: How to Get Startup Ideas
#25I've said this before, but one great source of ideas is to put yourself into different industries.
While it is difficult to become a management consultant, those guys get phenomenal exposure to most parts of a company. I've seen A LOT of B2B startups with founders that came from consulting, where they recognized some deficiency or need, somewhere down the production line.
Lots of "boring" ideas in "boring" fields of work that are worth big bucks.
Re: How to Get Startup Ideas
#261. See the future and build what it needs 2. Do something that exists 10x better 3. Scratch your own itch Maybe I'm just feeling cranky, but this feels pretty shallow to me. Mostly it seems like filler to pump their portfolio companies.
Missing: 4. Talk to people about their lives, their work, and their problems in both.
Re: How to Get Startup Ideas
#27I have a huge list of "ideas" in a text file that I add to periodically... I'm filled with ideas. If I had millions of dollars, I'd hire tons of people to work on most of them. Some could be profitable, some are just good for the world, others are just interesting to me or are an area for science I think needs more exploring. I don't have time for them all sadly. I need more time to execute. If you're really struggli…
Do you have any that could be started by a non engineer and bootstrapped? I’m working on 2 at the moment but their potential is more side-hustle-like than it is meaningful
Re: How to Get Startup Ideas
#281.Solve everyday problems
2.Find something you are passionate about and think of how you can make it better.
3.Create a need for something, or create a problem that people "don't know it exists".
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#294. Combine existing products
Examples:
Videochat + 2D Game = workadventu.re
Tinder + workadventu.re = ?
Pokemon + Google Maps + Kamera + GPS = Pokemon Go
Re: How to Get Startup Ideas
#30Personally, I find Evan Williams' quote a lot more insightful to identify what a "problem" is: take a process that people/organization already do, and remove a step, or make it extremely easy.