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Rather than looking for pain as the source of ideas, look for inefficiencies where you can capture a faction of the value released from using a more efficient method.

Pain is very subjective, but inefficiencies are quantifiable in dollars and cents. You don’t have to convince a new customer that your product is “better”, or will solve their “problem” - you just need to show them how much money they will save or make. Do this using a method you can protect and it is hard to fail.



In the first case you just need a solution that is better than nothing.

In the second case you need to be better than something that exists.

But yes, it is easier to find problems with bad solutions than to find problems without any solution.


What is not easy is finding good solutions that increase efficiency.


have you personally had any experience like that?


Yes I have. My entire business is based around doing exactly this.




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