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30. Know about different disciplines, and have

broad knowledge. Innovation often comes from
crossbreeding different disciplines.

31. Ask yourself why it hasn’t been improved in the
way you think would work.

32. What frustrates you most about a product, in
that frustration is an idea.

41. Ideas with no long term value generally fail. Look
for what will still be relevant tomorrow.

42. Transform a situation where people are isolated
or lonely by connecting them in a novel way.

43. Find an active forum. Make it easier for someone
(or a group) to do something they’re talking
about doing there, it could be your next startup

33. Stay away from TechCrunch or Mashable and

44. Make use of your favorite to-do app consistently and

34. Put yourself in a new state of mind. Get out of
solve a problem you are personally facing.

45. Take a different route home.
46. Look for markets that are not sufficiently served.
47. Think about the most normal, expected solution

around you, a mental flexibility to entertain odd
possibilities

48. When you see something that annoys you, think

that habit constantly.

49. Talk about your ideas with friends. Get feedback.

look outside the box
your demography.

35. It’s hard to make a good product if it doesn’t
37. Maintain a sense of curiosity in the world

38. Being creative is a habit you get into, maintain

39. Search yourself and look for problems you have
yourself.

40. Don’t think up startup ideas. Notice them.

write down your ideas the instant they come to you.

to a problem would be, and then try to imagine
the opposite.
about how to solve it.
Tweak and repeat.

50. Be in-the-know about breaking trends.
51. Look at the most commonly searched phrases on
Google trends.