Identifying and understanding the core problem from the user might seem trivial for an experienced entrepreneur(who might have got burned couple of times earlie

Identifying and understanding the core problem from the user might seem trivial for an experienced entrepreneur(who might have got burned couple of times earlier for not doing that). But, you'd be surprised how common it is for a first time entrepreneur to not care for the problem, but to build something just because 'they can' and later find out that nobody wants it. PG has written an excellent essay on the same[1]. I've been thinking a lot about 'solving the problem of not identifying the core problem' in my work as a startup coach, which lead me to the creation of needgap[2] - A problem validation platform. Of course, creating another platform is not going to magically solve anything; my personal goal with the platform is to understand the 'language of the problems' to differentiate it with the 'ideas'. So far, I've understood from the platform that - Identifying the core problem, is much harder than coming up with a solution aka the startup idea. [1]http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html [2]https://needgap.com https://needgap.com