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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.