> My mentor suggested to stay at Google until I find an interesting startup idea to work on. and >I want to spend 6 months in SE Asia and travel the world bef

> My mentor suggested to stay at Google until I find an interesting startup idea to work on. and >I want to spend 6 months in SE Asia and travel the world before starting my company. You may spend months trying to "find an interesting startup idea" to work on here and come up empty, whereas if you take off and spend even 1 month in SE Asia and the developing world, you might discover tons of startup ideas that are really worth solving for the 3rd world. I know of several Indian-Americans who traveled in India for a few months, and built cost-effective phones that work on very low bandwidth, apps that help buy stuff in an almost all-cash economy. A low-risk option would be to take a month off from Google (vacation) plan your trip in advance, visit just 1 single SE Asian country (Vietnam, India, Thailand whatever you fancy) and see what happens. These countries also have coworking spaces with Hi speed internet, so you could in theory, take action on a startup idea, and build an MVP in a month's time (or even less) and drop it on the internets and see what happens.