How to Get Startup Ideas
Title: How to Get Startup Ideas URL Source: https://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html Markdown Content: Image 1: How to Get Startup Ideas November 2012 The way to get startup ideas is not to try to thi
摘要
The Dangerous m.o. of Trying to Invent Startup Ideas
一句话总结
Starting with the m.o. of brainstorming startup ideas tends to generate convincing but fake problems, so you build things users don’t actually want.
要点
- 1In this context, "m.o." means the approach (modus operandi) of starting by trying to think up startup ideas rather than noticing real problems.
- 2This m.o. is "doubly dangerous" because it produces not only few good ideas but also plausible-sounding bad ideas that can waste months of work.
- 3It encourages founders to build based on an imagined model of the world instead of validated user needs, leading to "solutions" nobody wants.
- 4YC calls the resulting concepts "made-up" or "sitcom" ideas—contrived startups that work as a plot device but not as a business.
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Problem-first startup ideationUser discovery and validationFounder-market fit