read where capital just flowed to infer where a market is heating up, then find the underserved adjacency.
The core idea
read where capital just flowed to infer where a market is heating up, then find the underserved adjacency.
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FrameworkThree-star reviews
mine lukewarm reviews of existing products; the specific, repeated complaints ar
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FrameworkInvestigate the graveyard
study startups that died with a good core idea; failure was often timing or exec
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FrameworkInvestigate science fiction
treat sci-fi as an accidental product roadmap; make the imagined solution real o
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FrameworkAcqui-deaths
hunt the gaps left when a big company acquires a startup and lets the original p
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FrameworkWhat won't change
build on the human constants (cheaper, faster, more convenient); durable value a
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FrameworkDominate fragmented categories
find a market with no clear leader and consolidate it under one brand and one st