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How to Get Startup Ideas

The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It’s to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself.

The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they’re something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others realize are worth doing. Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Google, and Facebook all began this way.”

How to Get Startup Ideas

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When you have an idea for a startup, ask yourself: who wants this right now? Who wants this so much that they’ll use it even when it’s a crappy version one made by a two-person startup they’ve never heard of? If you can’t answer that, the idea is probably bad.

Paul Graham (@paulg)

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You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It’s easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)