How do I come up with a startup idea?

How do I come up with a startup idea?

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Something like that.

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Are you kidding me user? It's so easy to come up with start up ideas.

First, find a company that is already doing well

Second, add AI to it

Really, how hard can it be?

>I wish X did X

android app.
Whatever is trending.

By getting creative and learning how to pitch your idea. You too can create the successor to the DVD rewinder.

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Something that has a low profit margin, then make sure to lease out a giant office in downtown Los Angeles, and organize giant company parties every week, where you invite Usher to sing

>Aiming this low
Supposing OP wants to own a billion dollar business by the end of the month, I suggest also adding a blockchain or two.

How do I start a thread without an image?

Take an existing well off company and add any one or a combination of the following to it:

Blockchain
Deep learning
Crowd sourcing
"The Cloud"
IoT
Virtual reality
P2P
Plugin micro transactions
Biometrics
Virtual machine sandboxing
Eco friendly
Geolocation
Material UI

What do you mean. OP posted a picture of a room with a light switch.

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But will any of that make a sustainable business?

Start by making a list of buzzwords, or terms that you feel could become buzzwords in the near future. For example
>app (It's 2018, this one is mandatory)
>sustainable
>inclusive
>blockchain
>augmented reality
And the wildcard
>behavioral technology

Now let these items flow together to form an idea. Weave order from chaos. Here's what I could come up with.
A blockchain-based database of humans, a sort of involuntary social network where anyone can create a profile for anyone else with name and pictures, and anyone can write whatever they want about this person for everyone else to see. Once something has been written to a person's profile it is there forever. The utility of this would be to anonymously shame anyone who is a bad person, for example if they creep on girls, are bad in bed or have right-wing opinions. Fear of being slandered on this social platform will motivate people to behave better.

It will be new layer of information to social reality. It needs to have a normie-friendly app and not consume a shitload of power like bitcoin does.

That's a cute picture of a flying panda.

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>Start by making a list of buzzwords, or terms that you feel could become buzzwords in the near future. For example
>>app (It's 2018, this one is mandatory)
>>sustainable
>>inclusive
>>blockchain
>>augmented reality
>And the wildcard
>>behavioral technology
>Now let these items flow together to form an idea. Weave order from chaos. Here's what I could come up with.
>A blockchain-based database of humans, a sort of involuntary social network where anyone can create a profile for anyone else with name and pictures, and anyone can write whatever they want about this person for everyone else to see. Once something has been written to a person's profile it is there forever. The utility of this would be to anonymously shame anyone who is a bad person, for example if they creep on girls, are bad in bed or have right-wing opinions. Fear of being slandered on this social platform will motivate people to behave better.
>It will be new layer of information to social reality. It needs to have a normie-friendly app and not consume a shitload of power like bitcoin does.
I wonder if this process would work.

I got an idea for an AI program from this.

what, a crawler that catalouges racists on social media? Remember to pay me royalties

That seems suitably dystopian

OP said startup idea

I said startup because that's typically how most businesses start isn't it?

I want to start a business but can't think of a good one to start. I have programming skills and have worked for a while in AI, but I really want to do my own thing.

I'll make the logo

This the best answer you will get: become a middle man in a lucrative market. Amazon, ebay; youtube, google; whatsapp, snapchat; craigslist, indeed are all middle-men. This is how it has always worked.

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Then they send you to jail for 10 years for cookie stuffing.

>cookie stuffing
What?

Find a problem that no one has solved yet, and that is worth the effort of solving, and then find a solution.

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How do I find a problem that's approachable by an individual though!?

You keep thinking of ideas until you hit on one that, even after thinking it through thoroughly, still sounds like you could really do it.

I've come up with a few. Any tips on thoroughly testing it?

Research and test first the parts that are 1) easiest to research and test and 2) that you're least sure of.

You don't want to dump a bunch of time and resources into a bad idea, so if you can find what doesn't work early on that's ideal

I have no idea why is it flying but I'm pretty sure it is a dog.

Well I guess it's time to get going.

Just think up of a really interesting product, draw nice pictures, make a dummy model with some CGI in the demonstration video, throw it up on Kickstarter with a goal of $500,000, take the money and run.

I'd also say:

Make things as simple as you can get away with, and always keep in mind the final production. Once you are seriously pursuing the idea, put your MVP (minimum viable product) list on a whiteboard, and take the time to look it over and seriously consider a timeline. Make your MVP as small as possible; if you create a successful company, all the ideas you cut can go in the v2 or be added as an update. This also helps stop you from deluding yourself, thinking you're making progress but working on irrelevant details.

Work on the parts that are the most uncertain, or will take the longest first. Do at least one thing every day, no matter how small. Keep a list of small, medium, and large tasks. Things should naturally flow from the MVP to large tasks, to medium tasks, to small tasks. You don't need to be very strict about the sizing, but some sort of organization can really help to make sure you aren't neglecting anything important.

Do I absolutely need a partner? Books suggest this but I'm unsure.

Why come up with a new idea? Most of the world's companies aren't engaged in anything inherently novel - they just do what has a record of selling. It'd be quite easy to spin up yet-another webdev/ecommerce shop.

>take the money and run
Can you really do that? Is there no legal consequences?

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How would you even make money doing webdev or ecommerce now? Don't most people farm it out to pajeets or use Amazon?

I suspect most small businesses/individuals would just go to a local shop (which could then optionally farm it out to pajeets and you keep the money).

Hmm, I do have those skills.
I wonder if I could compete with the other shops.

Sure. When have you ever seen anything actually PRODUCED from Kickstarter?

I mean okay, there's the stupid Pebble meme watch and probably a couple of other projects, but everything else gets mysteriously left in the dark forever.

Kickstarter is like an inverted Ponzi scheme or some shit.

video games tend to have a fairly regular success. But then, distributing games isn't really as difficult as distributing hardware

I have a partner, and I've found it extremely valuable. He's my best friend and we came up with the idea together. We do a great job of poking holes in the others' ideas, and we have a very similar vision for the product.

I wouldn't say it's absolutely necessary, though. If this were purely a software project like many of my other ideas, I'd still talk with him, but I'd probably work alone.

Does anyone know a good site to watch tech trends?
Sup Forums is pretty fringe.

Copy X company and add qt waifus.

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Think of an idea that you can create a crafty and topical name that ends in "-ly", ".io", or drops letters that would still render the word readable, or finally my favorite, combining two words that aren't really related to your business and loosely to each other; such as "Spruce and Nail", "Craft and Curious", or "Hawk and Culture."

Then find a way to get together a website that details why your product/service will change the game/disrupt the industry/be the Uber of (blank). Bonus points if you are cloud-based. DO NOT SPECIFY WHAT IT IS YOU DO YET. This is because you don't and won't be doing anything.

Finally, seek out sweet seed money from Angels and throw spritzers to get hype for your company. All this will culminate in getting bought out by Google/Amazon/Yahoo/Apple. At this point, you're done! Become a consultant.

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>right-wing opinions
>bad
:^)

Is this book worth reading?

Try talking to people in industry