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I mentioned you in this post because it seems like your awareness is increasing. I saw your most recent gold post. I would appreciate it if you would give your take about my thoughts on idea extraction and how you view them in the realm of being aware knowing yourself.
I personally think there are many paths to getting a profitable business consistently though:
1) be involved in something already
2) take problem/steal problem from business already succeeding and be a "me too"
3) "inception game" where you extract information from someone.
4) lie to someone like you're a developer or xyz commercial interest person who is super valuable to xyz industry where someone will come to you and do a brain dump.
5) pick a proven small business niche and just be better than everyone in various ways like customer service, product/actual service, marketing etc. Many small business owners suck when it comes to the internet because they were in business before the web.
I can only speak for what worked for me:
1. Extreme domain knowledge
2. I was my own customer
3. The idea/solution fit into my personality type ( MBTI and Enneagram )
4. The ideal/solution fit into my core values and mission statement
5. Idea sprung forth from existing issues with "me too" products, but the solution was a blue ocean of it's own
6. We dominated a very small core set of our demo, perfected, and grew out to others from there
7. Me and my partner already had a small, but steady, following of people that regarded us as experts at some level in our field
Do you need all of those to make a great idea? No.
I do feel you need to hit multiple items on the list though, just not all.
Also, it needs to touch on CENTS as well.
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