> irrational fear that their idea will be stolen. Hence not to be fixated on idea and instead focus on the problem. If one thinks about the problem, they have

> irrational fear that their idea will be stolen. Hence not to be fixated on idea and instead focus on the problem. If one thinks about the problem, they have less qualms about sharing it and asking 'Hey do you face this problem too?' I found this the hard way in my previous entrepreneurial tenure by obsessively building high effort products just because 'I can' and not really trying to find out whether it really solves a problem which people want to be solved. Obviously many of it ended in failure. In order to change this I started a problem validation platform[1] two years ago which has problems as first class citizens. So now whenever I have a problem which I feel is worth solving I submit it on needgap, If I have an idea to solve it I post in the comments. This way, I either find out existing solutions which I have missed out (or) That there are other people who want it to solved (or) Even better idea to solve the problem. [1] https://needgap.com https://needgap.com