Work on LARGE scale, e.g. pick a project from pg's frighteningly ambitious startup ideas (http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html http://www.paulgraham.com/amb

Work on LARGE scale, e.g. pick a project from pg's frighteningly ambitious startup ideas (http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html). This was from 2012 so a bit dated now but the general thought applies. Disrupt a segment, but one where there aren't huge clear antagonists that can squish you immediately, e.g. healthcare. Two examples that are important to me: * Investigate the rising cost of higher education. Start with public data (for state universities), create a nice visualization on where the money is going. Extrapolate to private colleges. Then find ways to attack and change the status quo. * Increase quality of education of poor kids (not just inner city, but that may be easier to start with). For example, can the shuttered grade schools in poor areas be repurposed into startup spaces, providing office to startup at very low cost, but they have to provide tutoring teaching for local students.