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Founder's Journal (part 3): How do we know if it’s big enough of a problem to jump in?

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Welcome back to another blog in the series Founder’s Journal where I reflect on my journey building my startup MỞ over the past 4 years. In the previous blog, I talked about how to identify the right start-up idea. I talked about three important points: Ideas are just the beginning. It takes a long and iterative process for ideas to fully form and develop. Pay attention to both our inner and outer world to identify problems that we care about. Only when we find something we care about can we have the will and consistency to coevolve with it. Understand whether we and the problem(s) have are founder-future fit. We cannot stop thinking about the problem (love/passion). We have the necessary skills and network to kick start and sustain solving the problem (leverage). We have a unique insight into the problem/industry (unique opportunity/competitive advantage). In this blog, we will explore the following question together once we have identified some sort of problem/idea we want to pursue:

Hi friends, Hope you are well ❤️ Welcome back to another blog in the series Founder’s Journal where I reflect on my journey building my startup MỞ over the past 4 years. In the previous blog, I talked about how to identify the right start-up idea. I talked about three important points: Ideas are just the beginning. It takes a long and iterative process for ideas to fully form and develop. Pay attention to both our inner and outer world to identify problems that we care about. Only when we find something we care about can we have the will and consistency to coevolve with it. Understand…

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