Finding startup idea [resources]
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How to think, research, and verify. Also how to stay away from bad startup ideas. List of resources, from articles to podcasts, including examples of both poor and excellent ideas to pursue.
How to think about startup ideas
- Matt and Alice from Entrepreneur First, a podcast episode
How to be a Founder: #4 How to find an idea on Apple Podcasts
Show How to be a Founder, Ep #4 How to find an idea - 8 Sept 2022
Idea Generation
The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup. But giving founders an idea…
Researching for good ideas
- Stephen Smith, Honing Your Information Advantage (particularly good for consumer - resources like https://subredditstats.com/)
E7: “Honing Your Information Advantage” | Steph Smith, a16z
Erik Torenberg sits down with Steph Smith, host of the a16z podcast and the driver behind the newsletter Trends for The Hustle, which was acquired by Hub…
- Sam Parr, How he thinks and researches ideas
How I Built The Hustle w/ Sam Parr
Episode 27: In another edition of a guest entry for Founder’s Journal , Sam Parr ( @thesamparr ) shares the secrets of how he built The Hustle , a wildly…
- See (and verify) what keywords are in growing popularity
Exploding Topics - Discover the hottest new trends.
See new market opportunities, trending topics, emerging technology, hot startups and more on Exploding Topics.
- Why going after small markets initially makes sense - Sam Altman (quick video)
- Why you need to stop researching on just start with your imperfect idea (Loom)
Shahed K. on LinkedIn: How 9 months of building without success, 2 pivots, and 100s of rejections… | 708 comments
How 9 months of building without success, 2 pivots, and 100s of rejections resulted in Loom: In reflecting back on the last 8 years, I've become convinced… | 708 comments on LinkedIn
Shahed K.
Inspiration from... bad ideas
Ideas that are graveyards for founders
- Marketplace for homemade food
- App for event discovery
- Social network around interests
- App to aggregate medical records
- Booking site for medical tourism
- Personal CRM
Daily bad ideas from Soren, he is awesome
Validation
- Checklist. After 6 ideas that didn't work out, Rujul Zaparde and Lu Cheng created a 16-point checklist for what a great startup idea needs to hit.
- How to validate a B2B startup idea
Dmitry Samoylovskikh on LinkedIn: How do you know if a startup idea has a unicorn potential or if it's…
How do you know if a startup idea has a unicorn potential or if it's complete BS? — Notion started as a no-code website builder;
— Miro started as a…
Dmitry SamoylovskikhJust free ideas
- Shaan Purri's Five Business Ideas
Five Clear-Cut Business Ideas
FIVE CLEAR-CUT IDEAS
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