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Recent funding rounds
read where capital just flowed to infer where a market is heating up, then find the underserved
Three-star reviews
mine lukewarm reviews of existing products; the specific, repeated complaints are a product spec
Investigate the graveyard
study startups that died with a good core idea; failure was often timing or execution, not the c
Investigate science fiction
treat sci-fi as an accidental product roadmap; make the imagined solution real once the tech exi
Acqui-deaths
hunt the gaps left when a big company acquires a startup and lets the original product wither; i
What won't change
build on the human constants (cheaper, faster, more convenient); durable value anchored to desir
Dominate fragmented categories
find a market with no clear leader and consolidate it under one brand and one standard.
Unbundling
split a bundled product into standalone pieces and win a segment the bundle over-serves or over-
Niche down
pick a hyper-specific segment and become its specialist; depth beats breadth for a new entrant.
Rebrand boring products
take an essential-but-dull product, add design and story, and capture a big market (glasses, mat
Premium boring products
add quality, design, and branding to a commodity to turn it into a near-luxury (vacuum cleaners,
Democratize luxury
take a high-end product down-market over time, starting premium and driving toward mass affordab
One-time-payment software
win the users who hate subscriptions by offering a comparable tool for a single fee.
Rebrand old supplements / categories
refresh a tired, trusted category with modern brand, format, and channel.
Build the anti-product
deliberately do the opposite of the category leader for the customers alienated by the norm.
Build a copycat
replicate a proven model and execute better or adapt it to a new context (social networks, super
Business-model arbitrage
port a proven business model from one industry to another that hasn't adopted it yet.
Industry timing arbitrage
take newly matured technology from one industry and apply it to another that hasn't adopted it.
Leverage patent expiry
when protection lapses, build the improved or cheaper version of a formerly-protected product.
Localize a global model
adapt a working overseas model to local conditions, regulation, and taste.
Disruptive innovation
enter a big, over-served market with something initially worse but cheaper/more accessible; impr
Find shareable resources
spot underused assets that could be shared efficiently (spare rooms, idle cars).
Build gadget accessories
when a new hardware platform takes off, be ready with the complementary products for the gold ru
Build on platforms
build atop an emerging platform's distribution before the platform (or others) fill the gap — wi
Invent a new sport / category
combine familiar elements into something new that taps competitiveness and is easy to learn, har
Vertical AI agents
take one industry's high-value workflow end-to-end with a model wrapped in domain data, tools, g
Wrap-a-model → own-the-workflow
start as a thin layer on a base model, then race to own the data and workflow before the base mo
AI-native rebuild of a legacy workflow
re-architect a pre-AI SaaS category assuming the model does the core work (support, docs, reconc
Data-moat-first
design the product to accumulate proprietary, non-substitutable data from day one; the app is th
Deprecation surfing
when an incumbent kills or degrades a feature (or a model provider deprecates a capability), cat
Agent-arbitrage / orchestration
sit between customers and multiple AI agents/models, adding routing, evals, and guardrails as th
Regulatory-arbitrage in AI
build where compliance is the hard part (health, legal, finance) and make the guardrails the moa