combine familiar elements into something new that taps competitiveness and is easy to learn, hard to master.
The core idea
combine familiar elements into something new that taps competitiveness and is easy to learn, hard to master.
Connected
Recent funding rounds
read where capital just flowed to infer where a market is heating up, then find
Three-star reviews
mine lukewarm reviews of existing products; the specific, repeated complaints ar
Investigate the graveyard
study startups that died with a good core idea; failure was often timing or exec
Investigate science fiction
treat sci-fi as an accidental product roadmap; make the imagined solution real o
Acqui-deaths
hunt the gaps left when a big company acquires a startup and lets the original p
What won't change
build on the human constants (cheaper, faster, more convenient); durable value a