The Startup Chat with Steli and Hiten

121: How to Come Up With Great Business Ideas


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On today’s The Startup Chat we talk about how to come up with good business ideas. Ideas come from all sorts of places. People get ideas by:

Coming up with solutions to a problem

Bringing an idea from one medium (or place) to another
Doing something better than someone else

All of these are valid and useful to find a good idea.

On today’s episode we discuss how we get new ideas and why it’s important to come up with a lot of ideas.

The other points we made today are:

Why frustration is a common catalyst for ideas

How thinking of ideas is like building a muscle
Why you should make a list
What to do with an idea
How to handle critical feedback
Why you should “sleep on it”
Why you need to surround yourself with creative people
Why you should read more

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The Startup Chat with Steli and HitenBy Steli Efti & Hiten Shah: Serial Entrepreneurs, Sales & Marketing Experts, Startup Investors & Advisors, CEOs running multi million dollar SaaS Startups

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