I am searching for a business idea and it is difficult. Over the past few months, I toiled over the search for an idea and made no progress in starting a new company. Paul Graham’s post about startup ideas showed me that I was going about the process entirely wrong. I was searching for a business…
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Three Industries That Need Innovation based on Marc Andreessen’s “Software Eats _____” Predictions
Marc Andreessen predicts that the next wave for successful startups are startups that take over for existing incumbent businesses. Uber is “Software eats Taxis”. Fab.com is “Software eats Home Furnishings”. What industries come to mind that haven’t changed in a long time? What industries are you involved in? If you’re looking for a startup idea,…
Goals & Cheating As You Fall Behind
One of my main goals for the year has been to write at least one blog post everyday. I’ve written four or five and it’s already the 11th. I’m 6 behind only two weeks into the new year. This has made me ponder how “cheating” effects goals. It’s one thing to completely shrug off a…
The Concierge Minimum Viable Product Maximizes Customer Learning
The concierge mvp is an interesting concept because the lean startup method is all about eliminating waste and the concierge mvp seems wasteful from a distance. To a software developer, it doesn’t make sense to manually perform a task when you can get a software program to do it for you.
Business Tips from Surgeons: Follow Your Client’s To The Grave
Curing diseases is in many ways, very similar to running a startup company. You define a clear problem. You hypothesize ways of solving the problem. You implement your hypotheses in a controlled environment. You examine the results. Much like startups, if a surgeon is lucky, he can follow a colleague’s surgery and examine the results…
What I Remember Learning from the Books on my Shelf part 1
While home for the holidays, I wandered upon the bookshelf I used from high school until my second to last year of college. It’s full of software and small business related books. Some I read, some I skimmed, some were completely useless. I’m going to share my thoughts on the books on the shelf in…
Take some Time to Complete Project Reddit Challenges
While writing new year’s goals, I stumbled upon The Project Reddit Challenges. These weekly “challenges” are designed to help you improve your life. The goals vary from “do something you’ve never before in your entire life” to “carry a pen and a notepad with you everywhere you go for a week”. Every lesson is designed…
It’s Okay If Your First Product Makes Your User’s Situation Worse
Your First product will always be terrible and probably won’t work. In fact, it’s very well possible that it will make your target’s situation worse than if they hadn’t tried any solution for their problem. This happens in all innovative industries. One instance that stands out is in the experiments of handling drug addiction in…
Practice Creation More – New Goal: 1 blog post every day
In this consumption based world we live in, it’s often difficult to create habits of creating. It was assumed that it takes 21 days to create a habit, but newer research suggests it can take up to 200 days to form a new habit. No matter how long it takes to form a habit, I…
Take a Moment to Finish Something
I read this recent post about the author Turning 30 and has never created amazing art. He hasn’t created anything he is particularly excited about, but has over 30 domain names and countless finished projects. This made me consider my situation and the countless domain names and unfinished projects I never finished. In order to…