Some advice: Keep it really simple. There's a tendency to build too much when your only goal is to prove whether there's a market opportunity that you can capt

Some advice: Keep it really simple. There's a tendency to build too much when your only goal is to prove whether there's a market opportunity that you can capture. Look beyond young people in urban cores. Don't startup in a domain in which nobody on your team has deep connections. While there have been exceptions, it's foolish to assume that your antecedents were morons. It's quite possible that the reason you don't have an idea is that your team needs a fourth person that is really passionate about an idea. One thing you could consider trying is applying your team to an existing team that is having trouble getting traction for an idea you think has legs. Lots of people are working on a product that they have no idea how to bring to market. Are any of you women? That missing fourth person is almost certainly female. And guess what? There's a lot of things that could be made better in the world for women. If you start building a platform, I recommend that you skip the platform and build the first product that you'd build using the platform if it existed. One really helpful lens for idea evaluation is: what current behaviour is this replacing? What do people with this problem do about it today? And are they willing to pay money to do it differently? I wrote a post a few years back that you might find useful. http://hackertourism.com/how-to-tell-your-friend-that-their-startup-idea-sucks http://hackertourism.com/how-to-tell-your-friend-that-their-...