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Seems to me like all of these companies solved problems - they were just problems that not many people knew they had. Airbnb - I only use my place 90% of the y
by harmegido 12y ago
Seems to me like all of these companies solved problems - they were just problems that not many people knew they had.
Airbnb - I only use my place 90% of the year, but I pay for using it 100% of the year.
Coke - Water doesn't taste very good.
Apple/MS - secretaries are expensive. Can they be automated?
- ykumar6 12y agoI think it's the other way around. Airbnb had to be solving a problem on the demand side for a supply to arise. Similarly, Apple/MS must have found an early market of professionals to sell to that need excel, calculators, whatever - solving a problem for them. You don't start by automating out secretaries. You start by solving a problem for an existing set of people.
- pbreit 12y agoIf it's solving problem that you don't know you have, I would consider it more creating opportunity.
- Retric 12y agoAging is a major problem everyone has, but few people think of it in those terms. Generally when people talk about 'creating opportunity's' they just mean solving problems that people don't think of as problems. In that context Google's quest to 'organize the worlds information' is really just solving the gap between what humanity knows and what you know. EX: Someone knows where the closest ATM is, but you have no idea. Someone knows what error code 237b means and what to do next, but you don't.