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15. What inefficiencies do you notice in your daily routine work. 16. Ask yourself: what abilities do you care about or want to enhance? 17. Live in the future and build what people will need. 18. Look out for cues when reading books or when taking a walk, in the bus, on the train, subway etc. 19. A great start up idea is one you’ll be able to grow continuously. Think long-term. 20. Get your best friends together, complain about life problems, brainstorm solutions, talk it out, and write everything down. 21. Organize a Meetup  or find a meetup to share ideas. 22. Many of the great businesses of the next decade will be about making information about our behaviors more visible.-Evan Williams 23. Don’t think about just one niche, stay open to ideas from all industries. 24. Think of something that everyone does with their friends and make it public. 25. Identify tasks that take time/waste your time. 26. Ask yourself what was impossible, or unnecessary a few years ago but with technology is possible today. 27. What activity do you dread the most in a given day? 28. Ask random people that you meet what the biggest annoyances in their lives and jobs are. 29. When you encounter a problem think through all the possible ways of resolving it.