Ideas: How to come up with the perfect idea for a Startup

Starting today, we’re reopening the Startup School Aspiring Founders track as a continuous course. This track is intended for potential founders wh... (2021)

Hoping to start a company someday? We’ve gone back through our archives to surface the best advice on problem selection from first-time entrepreneu... (2021)

People often tell me they want to start a startup, but they don’t know what to build. “I’m not a person with ideas”, they’ll say. Stop that narrati... (2018)

Free Sales and Marketing Answers for Techies (2018)

Spanx founder Sara Blakely knows: To find your big idea, you have to look for it. And look for it. And be ready to act. Sara was actively seeking a... (2018)

Robert Hacker, 2017: “So in the future, ideas will be the real scarce inputs in the world — scarcer than both labor and capital — and the few who ... (2017)

Daily ideas for what to build next. Startup ideas about: IOT, Technology, medical, foods, agriculture, fintech ... (2017)

Lecture 3.1 - Coursera - Human Centered Design: An Introduction University of California, San Diego (2018)

The goal of brainstorming is to find possible solutions to a problem, but the process often becomes a platform for the outspoken, who offer the sam... (2018)

How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies "originals": thinkers who dream up new ideas and ta... (2018)

Recently someone asked me to explain the relationship between design thinking and value creation. Design thinking, or human-centered design, is ... (2018)

An MVP is not just a product with half of the features chopped out, or a way to get the product out the door a little earlier. (2018)

Interested in building a startup, or starting your own small business to make money on the side? Learn by example from dozens of entrepreneurs who ... (2018)

Back in high school, my favorite teacher said to me: ”Jonathan. Remember to die a little every day.” Back then, I thought it was a strange thing to... (2019)

The pop culture view of startups is that they’re all about coming up with a great product idea. After the eureka moment, the outcome is preordained... (2019)

A frequent question entrepreneurs have when they are just starting their company is:  how secretive should I be about my idea?  My answer:  you sho... (2019)

Exhaustion shouldn’t be a badge of honor. (2019)

Michelle Rial (follow her at), then working at Buzzfeed, posted this hilarious infographic with all the “X for Y” ideas. Here’s the original articl... (2019)

Ok this isn't the most profound SaaS post of all time, but now that there are 100+ public SaaS companies and unicorns, we can finally answer a ques... (2019)

Dan Rockmore on mathematical epiphanies and the mind-enhancing strategies that help them to occur. (2019)

Below is a list of products or startups that I am keeping an eye out for. I skipped listing things I wish existed that can *not* be impleme... (2020)

I hear a lot of startup pitches. I’ve been angel investing now for ~4 years, and I’m an LP and advisor to a number of VC funds. I also heard a lot ... (2018)

Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effect... (2020)

The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any idea... (2020)

The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself. The very... (2020)

Ideas on this page are 100% generated by OpenAI's GPT-3. The idea is to give you inspiration to make something cool, if you lack inspiration ri... (2020)