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…

There were only a couple thousand Altair owners, but without this software they were programming in machine language. Thirty years later Facebook had…

If you're not at the leading edge of some rapidly changing field, you can get to one. For example, anyone reasonably smart can probably get to an…

School That's what I'd advise college students to do, rather than trying to learn about "entrepreneurship." "Entrepreneurship" is something you learn…

Filters There are two more filters you'll need to turn off if you want to notice startup ideas: the unsexy filter and the schlep filter. Most…

A good trick for bypassing the schlep and to some extent the unsexy filter is to ask what you wish someone else would build, so that you could use it…

I know it's a bad idea the way I know randomly generated DNA would not produce a viable organism. The set of plausible sounding startup ideas is many…