mine lukewarm reviews of existing products; the specific, repeated complaints are a product spec someone hasn't built yet.
The core idea
mine lukewarm reviews of existing products; the specific, repeated complaints are a product spec someone hasn't built yet.
Connected
Recent funding rounds
read where capital just flowed to infer where a market is heating up, then find
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
Dominate fragmented categories
find a market with no clear leader and consolidate it under one brand and one st