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> There are no blatant problems awaiting for a solution anymore (it's 2018!). This is unlikely to be true. It's at least as untrue as it was in any previous y
by brucephillips 9y ago
> There are no blatant problems awaiting for a solution anymore (it's 2018!).
This is unlikely to be true. It's at least as untrue as it was in any previous year. Good ideas are only blatantly obvious in hindsight.
- vemv 9y agoI disagree. Airbnb, Uber, Amazon and many others are extremely basic ideas that some person or another would have come up with sooner or later. Basically it was a matter of being in the right place, right time, right knowledge (and execution, of course) Winners took it all.
- brucephillips 9y agobasic != blatantly obvious. An idea can be easy to see, but difficult to value.
- mannykannot 9y agoBlatantly obvious ideas, and those that someone will come up with sooner or later, are distinct categories, more or less by definition. There are plenty of problems, the shortage is in problems with obvious solutions that have not yet been implemented yet. One could argue that these opportunities are becoming more fleeting, as more people are being drawn into the search for them.