Evaluating startup ideas based on search volume reminds me of the apocryphal Henry Ford quote about "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have sai

Evaluating startup ideas based on search volume reminds me of the apocryphal Henry Ford quote about "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses". VC-backed startups don't succeed by finding an underserved niche and generating a nice, steadily growing profit over time. They are by their nature supposed to either explosively succeed or rapidly die.