The holy grail in startups is discovering a problem that everyone has a different solution for, and no one is happy with it. There are still way more of these markets than we realize.
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I’ll defer to your holy grail over mine
Empirically, to find these ideas you have to be "living in the future" in some respect. Then the things you want will be things that, a few years later, millions of other people will also want. This explains the phenomenon: http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html …
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Ability to live in future is so rare. Great example is
@akifmalik who founded Olympic bids that involve vision 15-25 years ahead. Almost every crazy idea he said 20+ years ago is happening: streaming vid, online ed, rise of creators, social networks, sensors, e-commerce, etc. -
Love PG's essay, most ideas really do try to solve a problem: hated walking to class in snow
online ed / zoom
pain to embed, stream videos youtube
family spread across world fb, etc
Mom had 
surgery sensors apple
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I've been sitting on some ideas for online edu. DM me for info, not like I have the cash to realize the potential.
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So in the early 2000’s, Philipe Kahn had one of these: the camera phone. He started a company (two companies) and they didn’t work out because he was a little too far in the future, he tried to scale too fast and he blew it management wise.
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It’s nuts that seven years later SJ was able to take the market. That’s how bad most orgs are at executing.
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Great take on Backcasting from
@m2jr athttps://medium.com/@m2jr/how-to-build-a-breakthrough-3071b6415b06 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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