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They say you can give a man to fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime. But if you teach a man how to teach himself to fish...he can accomplish anything and become unstoppable in the process.
Think about it....
Anyhow, back on topic:
As I'm here sitting on a lawn chair in the middle of a horse field in North Carolina, I decided to pull out my laptop and do a mind-dump on how I go about coming up with business ideas. This post is meant for the beginner entrepreneurs (most likely the ones who clicked this link and expected a list to be handed to them).
STOP searching for a business idea and start searching for problems.
Despite MJ preaching something similar in his book, I still made this fatal mistake for the first few years on my journey. I was too busy looking for business ideas instead of problems.
The idea comes from the problem. So if you focus on the ideas, you're not going to find one.
When you look for the IDEA, you won't find it because the thing you should really train yourself to find are problems to solve. If you said "duh" to that statement, and have gotten results from it, stop reading, because this post is not for you.
The first thing I like to do when searching for a business idea is to think about what problems I have in my life.
I'm about to backpack through Southeast Asia for a few months. And if I learned anything from @GlobalWealth or @JasonR - those few months will turn into "I am never coming back to the United States ever again." As a result of that, I'll need something that I can carry around easily, fit my laptop, microphone, clothes, and american-made condoms in while I experience the culture over there.
I have a problem. And someone needs to solve it for me.
The first step to finding a business idea is to think of problems you have in your life that need to be solved.
What problems do you have in your life?
Think about it....
Anyhow, back on topic:
As I'm here sitting on a lawn chair in the middle of a horse field in North Carolina, I decided to pull out my laptop and do a mind-dump on how I go about coming up with business ideas. This post is meant for the beginner entrepreneurs (most likely the ones who clicked this link and expected a list to be handed to them).
STOP searching for a business idea and start searching for problems.
Despite MJ preaching something similar in his book, I still made this fatal mistake for the first few years on my journey. I was too busy looking for business ideas instead of problems.
The idea comes from the problem. So if you focus on the ideas, you're not going to find one.
When you look for the IDEA, you won't find it because the thing you should really train yourself to find are problems to solve. If you said "duh" to that statement, and have gotten results from it, stop reading, because this post is not for you.
The first thing I like to do when searching for a business idea is to think about what problems I have in my life.
I'm about to backpack through Southeast Asia for a few months. And if I learned anything from @GlobalWealth or @JasonR - those few months will turn into "I am never coming back to the United States ever again." As a result of that, I'll need something that I can carry around easily, fit my laptop, microphone, clothes, and american-made condoms in while I experience the culture over there.
I have a problem. And someone needs to solve it for me.
The first step to finding a business idea is to think of problems you have in your life that need to be solved.
What problems do you have in your life?
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