Just read a post, not worth sharing ... too obvious ... http://hatchery.io/how-to-validate-your-business-idea-by-testing-a-hypothesis.html .
The only thing I thought it was worthwhile keeping is sth that the article doesn't really talk about but it is in on the subtext of the subheading:
> Fall in Love with the problem, not with the solution!
The way I read this is "Unless you think you can fall in love with the problem don't start a company just because you love the solution..."
This is important for me as I am attempting to find what to do next.
I really fell in love with the problem of being able to work from anywhere...
As I am fascinated with startup ideas in the space of home-contractors/homejoy/handibook I think I should ask myself:
Am I willing to fall in love with the problem of a worry free, time free, mindshare free home-living?
To the extend that home-living today is forcing people to either
+ devote a good part of their lives, cleaning, pruning, fixing, painting
or + accept to live in a rather sub-standard environment
or + spend a ton of money in "servants" and managing servants
or + accept a zero customization prison-cell like lack of variety (hotel, dorm etc)
it is a problem that if not I can fall in love, I can definitely sympathize. Do I truly need to fall in love with it?
My perspective is to some extent affected by the fact that I have fallen in love with aspects of the solution:
- I really am in love with the idea that for EVERYTHING there is a semi-automated marketplace or people or services where I can have everything ordered to be bought or ordered to be done with a search and single click
- I really do want to prove to people that still today the majority of the professions of today DON'T make sense. They are artifacts of the past - of an era where you need a specialist in each retail store that knows where everything is and how it is called and how to price it. They are artifacts of the past - an era where the average person couldn't practically fix everything that involves no tools by just searching an finding a youtube video for it. They are artifacts of the past - a past where you couldn't wear your google glasses and become someone else's eyes and hands and do things on their behalf.
The only thing I thought it was worthwhile keeping is sth that the article doesn't really talk about but it is in on the subtext of the subheading:
> Fall in Love with the problem, not with the solution!
The way I read this is "Unless you think you can fall in love with the problem don't start a company just because you love the solution..."
This is important for me as I am attempting to find what to do next.
I really fell in love with the problem of being able to work from anywhere...
As I am fascinated with startup ideas in the space of home-contractors/homejoy/handibook I think I should ask myself:
Am I willing to fall in love with the problem of a worry free, time free, mindshare free home-living?
To the extend that home-living today is forcing people to either
+ devote a good part of their lives, cleaning, pruning, fixing, painting
or + accept to live in a rather sub-standard environment
or + spend a ton of money in "servants" and managing servants
or + accept a zero customization prison-cell like lack of variety (hotel, dorm etc)
it is a problem that if not I can fall in love, I can definitely sympathize. Do I truly need to fall in love with it?
My perspective is to some extent affected by the fact that I have fallen in love with aspects of the solution:
- I really am in love with the idea that for EVERYTHING there is a semi-automated marketplace or people or services where I can have everything ordered to be bought or ordered to be done with a search and single click
- I really do want to prove to people that still today the majority of the professions of today DON'T make sense. They are artifacts of the past - of an era where you need a specialist in each retail store that knows where everything is and how it is called and how to price it. They are artifacts of the past - an era where the average person couldn't practically fix everything that involves no tools by just searching an finding a youtube video for it. They are artifacts of the past - a past where you couldn't wear your google glasses and become someone else's eyes and hands and do things on their behalf.
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