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> One strategy is to think of annoyances you have in your life In this way you will only end up with consumer products. I did this when I was 12 and ended up b
by heinrichhartman 9y ago
> One strategy is to think of annoyances you have in your life
In this way you will only end up with consumer products.
I did this when I was 12 and ended up building a fully automated "egg cutting machine" which solved my annoyance (and created a ton more) but had little market value.
The B2B market is huge.
I am most interested in solving hard problems that large organizations have with their internal processes.
Unfortunately I don't work for one, so the annoyances I want to solve are not my own.
- fanzhang 9y agoThe B2B market is huge, but still somewhat smaller than B2C. Look at the top tech companies by market cap today. Each is one that I've used as a consumer: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook. If you think the measure of dollars in top market cap companies isn't representative of companies a tier lower, this is likewise true for the highest value YC companies: Dropbox, AirBnB. As a founder or an investor, it's important not to forget about B2B, but directionally, thinking B2C is correct. (This is in contrast to, say, thinking of only game companies if you're a gamer; most tech company values are indeed not in games.)