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Kaibeezy’s Unique Business Model Axiom: If you have an idea, somebody else already had it. Kaibeezy’s Unique Business Model Corollary: Don’t let that stop you.
by Kaibeezy 7y ago
Kaibeezy’s Unique Business Model Axiom: If you have an idea, somebody else already had it.
Kaibeezy’s Unique Business Model Corollary: Don’t let that stop you.
So many people think they have to have the “killer” version in a category, or they collapse with disappointment when they find out someone else already had their amazing idea. Amateurs.
Existing solutions prove a market exists. Take the opportunity to see if the market is interested in your particular formulation. If you can carve out a niche and keep your overhead low, it could become viable or even quietly successful.
- reroute1 7y agoThis axiom sounds contradictory. Maybe if you add the word "probably" someone else had it. Because the fact is that someone HAD to have the idea first, so it's impossible to always apply this axiom. But I get the idea
- Kaibeezy 7y agoAs a modestly successful inventor, I get buttonholed all the time by people wanting advice about their ideas. Some may even be unique, but it doesn’t matter. Uniqueness is far from the major factor in doing something successful with an idea. Yes, the axiom is an intentional exaggeration—cold water in the face—to get their attention and refocus it.
- bluGill 7y agoUniqueness is if anything an anti-pattern to success. If you are really unique that probably means there is no market - either that or there would be a market but the problem is not solved and you are unlikely to make progress.
- allie1 7y agoEven if there isn’t something like the idea, if the problem exists, people are doing workarounds to solve their problem. This is what you need to be looking at.
- riku_iki 7y ago"very likely" would work better