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How to Find Your Next Big Idea Hiding on the Internet - Ep. 10 with Steph Smith

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Steph Smith is the host of the a16z podcast and a prolific online creator. 

Steph sees the internet through a high-definition lens that gives her a deep understanding of what people want. 

She can isolate a clear signal from the noise, which she uses to build wonderfully creative, useful things.  

In this episode, I dive deep with Steph on how she uses the internet and AI to unearth emerging trends and validate business ideas.

I pitch Steph two potential companies on the show, and we use an arsenal of tools and strategies to vet them live. 

We get into:

  • How she leverages ChatPT to generate great ideas 
  • Why ChatGPT is ideal for understanding complex concepts 
  • How she uses ChatGPT to organize huge swaths of data
  • Tips on using SEO tools to vet business ideas
  • How to surface useful insights from Reddit 
  • What to look for while reading customer reviews
  • Ways to gather more data on a market just from Google 

    • This is a must-watch for anyone who spends time online and wants to discover the next big idea hiding on the internet.

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      • Timestamps:

      1. Introduction 01:12
      2. Leveraging ChatGPT to generate great ideas 22:11
      3. Why ChatGPT is ideal for understanding complex concepts 29:29
      4. How to use ChatGPT to organize huge datasets 48:00
      5. Shark tank! Dan pitches Steph business ideas 1:00:41
      6. Steph’s first move while validating a business idea on the internet 1:07:51
      7. What to look for in a customer review 1:11:09
      8. Tips on secondary keyword searches 1:17:45
      9. How to gather market data from a simple Google search 1:26:24
      10. What type of trend charts depict a good market 1:31:55
      11. Using SEO tools to find useful insights from Reddit: 1:34:11
      12. How to gather data about competitors: 1:42:37
      13. Lightning-round questions from X 1:55:51

        14. Links to resources mentioned in the episode:

        • Steph Smith: https://twitter.com/stephsmithio
        • Internet Pipes: https://internetpipes.com/
        • Doing Content Right: https://doingcontentright.com/#features
        • Steph's database of untranslatable words: https://eunoia.world/
        • Dan’s piece on the Allocation Economy: https://every.to/chain-of-thought/the-knowledge-economy-is-over-welcome-to-the-allocation-economy 
        • Neal Agarwal: http://neal.fun
        • Keywords Everywhere: https://keywordseverywhere.com/
        • Reddit tools: https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=, https://gummysearch.com/
        • SEO tools for market analysis: https://www.similarweb.com/,  https://www.junglescout.com/, https://answerthepublic.com/ 
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