14th Oct 15 - What’s a Good Start-Up Idea…and How to Come Up with It?
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This document provides tips for finding good startup ideas. It emphasizes cultivating curiosity by getting out of your normal routine, being observant, asking questions, and looking at problems with a beginner's mindset. Good startup problems are important, have clear stakeholders, boundaries and potential solutions, and can be acted on. The document recommends exploring adjacent possibilities and practicing negative capability to understand problems from different perspectives in order to identify innovative solutions.
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14th Oct 15 - What’s a Good Start-Up Idea…and How to Come Up with It?
- 1. HOW TO FIND GOOD STARTUP IDEAS @PSturrock
- 2. Cultivate Curiosity ➡Get your head out of your screen ➡Change your routine ➡Turn up! ➡Carry your pencil ➡Make lists ➡Take Pictures ➡Sketch ➡Eavesdrop ➡Ask for stories
- 5. “If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”
- 6. What is a good problem?
- 7. “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters” - Peter Thiel
- 10. Wicked Problems 1. Multiple stakeholders: can’t be clearly defined. 2. Multidimensional 3. No boundaries 4. Any solution is partial and temporary
- 12. Interpretive Innovation Lester, R.K. & Piore, M.J. (2006) Innovation: The Missing Dimension, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press Analytic Innovation Vague problem Fuzzy goals Unknown solution Ongoing Conversational
- 13. Where do I find a good problem?
- 16. Cultivate Curiosity ➡Get your head out of your screen ➡Change your routine ➡Turn up! ➡Carry your pencil ➡Make lists ➡Take Pictures ➡Sketch ➡Eavesdrop ➡Ask for stories
- 17. Photo Credit: www.flickr.com VinothChandar creativecommons.org Look with Beginner’s Mind
- 18. “at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” John Keats Negative Capability
- 22. G E T O U T O F T H E B U I L D I N G !
- 25. Questions?