The document provides tips for finding new business ideas by connecting experiences and problems encountered to potential solutions. It recommends getting jobs or volunteering in areas of interest to meet new people, identify pain points, automation opportunities, or market gaps. Successful businesses may come from improving processes, automating tasks, or bringing solutions from other places. Ideas are found by connecting experiences to solve problems in a cost-effective way through research, validation, and execution.

1. So, you want
to start a
busıness
Just start
?
connecting the dots

2. Where to Get Your Next Big Idea?
• You need to build experiences. The more “things” you
do, the more problems you’ll encounter and dots you can
connect to solve them. Step 1. Get Jobs/Volunteer/Get New
Hobbies in areas of interest (ones that lend themselves to
business solutions the better) Connect with new People.
• Any products you complain about?
• See recurring pain points?
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3. • See anything happening in your
bubble that should be automated?
Process improved?
• Market Gap between what’s being offered
and what should be offered?
• Something that works somewhere but does exist where you are?
• Straight up invention
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4. Where Our Businesses Came From
Process that needed Processes that needed Market Gap + Something Pain Points Solved
improvement/market automation/improvement that works somewhere
gap in price brought to our Geography
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5. The Parking Lot/Graveyard
• Funeral Order Tracking Software
• Customizable Body Wash
• Group buying bridge payments
• QR Code Menu’s for Translation
• Customer Service Testing
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6. Ideas Are EVERYWHERE
• Connecting Dots is Easy
• Next Steps: Research/Validation/Execution (which can all
be done on the cheap)
(See: Business Research and Validation)
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Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 1A4 Email: info@10Count.ca software solutions.
Canada Web: www.10Count.ca Rob: Rob@10count.ca | Matt: Matt@10count.ca