How to find start-up ideas

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'm a startup founder with a ton of ideas and little time for side projects... so rather than file ideas way in notebooks... I'm posting them here and giving them away. Some are small app ideas, some full on "startup" ideas and some fall somewhere else in the creative landscape. No need to steal these ideas, I'm giving you permission to take them. Good luck!

You know that feeling you get when you're struck with a new idea? Adrenaline surges, your mind races through the possibilities, your fingers begin creating mindmaps as quickly as they can. Ok, maybe that last part is just me. Anyway. I get that feeling a lot. It's addicting.

But executing ideas is the hard part. It takes time. Time that needs to be spent on your "main thing". Soon you have a bunch of ideas that you were passionate about (if only for a day or two) all bottled up, never to see the light of day.

Well, in the spirit of openness and community, I'm going to set these ideas free. Some posts will be well thought out. Some might just be a snippet. I'm mostly posting them for for sake of discussion, but if somebody's interested in taking an idea forward, I'm all for it. I'll help out in any way I can.

What I usually do if I have an idea is register a domain name for
them, the trick here is that if the idea isn't worth throwing $7
at for a domain name then it is by definition a bad idea so that
first investment is used as a filter against the very worst ones.

Meanwhile (since I had these) no doubt a whole bunch of them have
been implemented.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. The money is in the execution.

Need proof? For Seth Godin's Alternative MBA program, this week the nine of us came up with 111 business ideas each. But ideas are only valuable when someone (like you) makes something happen.

What follows are our 999 business ideas, free for the taking.

Over the years I have spent a lot of time brainstorming startup ideas with people who are (asymptotically) as nerdy as me. For some reasons, every time I brainstorm with a new set of people, the following ideas come up. This suggests that either all nerds think alike, or alternatively, that they are unsolved problems that someone, someday, somewhere, may actually come up with a variant that hits big.

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Here’s another way to come up with startup ideas: walk around your house or apartment, and look for “hot spots.” A hotspot can be an area of high information density, clutter, stress, disorganization, or any place that has a suboptimal solution. Then think about a web or cloud solution to that hot spot.

Revorad: As soon as I started working on my startup, I started noticing lots of other problems in the world, which I wish someone would fix. At least some of these could turn into good business ideas too. So, if you are romanticising about starting a startup but don't have an idea, do this: forget about ideas and doing something new. Just pick up an existing business and try to clone it. Along the way, you will find your idea. Building stuff is the best generator of ideas in my experience.

Be the opposite of secretive. Create a Google spreadsheet where you list every idea you can think, even really half-baked ones. Include ideas you hear about. Then take the spreadsheet and show it to every smart person you can get a meeting with and walk through each idea.

There are lots of benefits to talking to people. You’ll get suggestions for improvements. You’ll discover flaws and hopefully correct them. You’ll learn a lot more about the sector/industry. You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. You might even discover your idea is a bad idea and save yourself years of hitting your head against the wall.

We're going to list some of the ideas we've been waiting to see, but only describe them in general terms. It may be that recipes for ideas are the most useful form anyway, because imaginative people will take them in directions we didn't anticipate. Many of the best startups we've funded, like Loopt, proposed things we'd never considered.

Given that I now rate any new idea I get according to a set of rules that helps me filter out good ideas from bad. At least, whatever I consider bad. Keep in mind these rules are for the canonical one or 2-person pre-startup - if you have 8million in VC, there's a lot of other magic you can do.

My entry last week on evaluating start-up ideas netted me some nice feedback. Rereading it, I realize there were a small pile of things that also should be on that list. So, welcome to part 2.

The difficult part about determining which home business idea is best suited for you, is that there are so many to choose from. With the many options that exist, also come a multitude of scams that you have to try to avoid. When you are doing your research, make sure that you do your due diligence, and steer clear of these kind of companies. Do not just jump into something overnight. One low start up home business idea that I can suggest is a rewarding career in online marketing.

Consider the following when making the most of business ideas: 1. Convert your innovative business ideas to a real business with a business plan. 2. Research these small business ideas before investing any time or money. 3. Choose the right name for your innovative business idea.

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