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Great list that made me smile. My two favorites from it include: - Falling in love with a product (rather than the problem) is really dangerous - It's really
by ljoshua 12y ago
Great list that made me smile. My two favorites from it include:
- Falling in love with a product (rather than the problem) is really dangerous
- It's really hard to build a product if you don't have a big personal investment in the problem it solves
- beat 12y agoOn the other hand, there are a lot of problems that are highly valuable because they aren't sexy and you can't fall in love with them.
- jkestner 12y agoIn those cases, I fall in love with the projected result. Visualizing a bunch of people happier because some obstacle is removed is motivating. More so when they start emailing you their joy over this pain point being removed.
- tdaltonc 12y agoDo you have an unlovable problem in mind? I guarantee I can recast it as the sexiest most important problem there is. Edit: On second though, if you can show that there is big money in solving [unlovable problem], I wont have to recast it. 1000 bay entrepreneurs will be stumbling over one another to recast it on their "Join The Team" page.
- adventured 12y agoFarming would have fallen into this category until recently. Pitching anything farm tech / data related in the bay area between 1994 - 2012 or so, would have mostly fallen on deaf ears. Under no circumstances would you have run into a scenario of 1,000 bay area entrepreneurs stumbling over themselves to copy your farm tech startup ten years ago. You can be sure there are blind spots of opportunity today in the same way.
- NeutronBoy 12y agoPretty much sums up the software/IT problems of enterprise.
- beat 12y agoI work in enterprise myself, and I'm in love with my problem, not my code. But it's a problem of large-scale software development, not a business problem directly.