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Effective Startup Ideation

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The purpose of this essay is to provide principles and processes for discovering unicorn-trajectory startup ideas. These thoughts are based on substantial observation, ample reason, and occasional mathematics. I hope you will find them useful for your journey. First: why this essay? There are plenty of other posts (notably, Paul Graham's and Sam Altman's) which emphasize the silicon-valley style of entrepreneurial ideation: focus on demand and iterate quickly and empirically in ways that don't scale. All of these points are right. Yet, my experience as an undergraduate was that they were often unactionable. Consequently, this essay is meant as a supplement to provide more specific and actionable methods and criteria. Due to their specificity, the points made here cannot be quite as universal. This essay therefore diverges from the more popular and brief treatises. At their core, startups build solutions to problems. We use these terms here because they are deliberately vague. Your comp

Effective Startup Ideation me Effective Startup Ideation October 30, 2022 Introduction The purpose of this essay is to provide principles and processes for discovering unicorn-trajectory startup ideas. These thoughts are based on substantial observation, ample reason, and occasional mathematics. I hope you will find them useful for your journey. First: why this essay? There are plenty of other posts (notably, Paul Graham's and Sam Altman's ) which emphasize the silicon-valley style of entrepreneurial ideation: focus on demand and iterate quickly and empirically in ways that don't scale. All of

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