I'm not sure if you have, but I'd suggest listening to Pieter Levels and Courtland Allen on youtube. They each have several talks where they discuss this sort o

I'm not sure if you have, but I'd suggest listening to Pieter Levels and Courtland Allen on youtube. They each have several talks where they discuss this sort of thing. Pieter Levels actually walks through his process of identifying problems and building them into potential startups within a month timeframe. Courtland has a Micro Conf talk where he discusses the various stages of building startups. Also, a great resource to learn how other people literally went from ideo to customer to profitable startup is the Indiehacker podcast. The first 200ish episodes are all interviews off this exact thing, plus IndieHackers has about 400+ written interviews of profitable startups by the founders that touch on this in many cases (IndieHackers is run by Courtland Allen)