I’ve always heard people give the advice of targeting businesses, but founders typically don’t understand the needs of businesses well, and I’ve never heard a good resolution to that dilemma.
The solution is likely “talk to people”. That could involve going to trade events or writing cold LinkedIn messages to ask people to eat lunch together.
You might also do something like an internship where you are not paid but on the other hand, will also own the code that you are writing during that internship.
Something like an internship would be a large investment of time that doesn’t feel like it’s worth the possibility of finding a startup idea.
I guess talking to people makes sense. I was thinking at first that it’d require more context than a lunch meeting, more like a dozen hours, but on second thought you could probably at least get a sense of where the paths worth exploring more deeply are (and aren’t) in a lunch meeting.
The solution is likely “talk to people”. That could involve going to trade events or writing cold LinkedIn messages to ask people to eat lunch together.
You might also do something like an internship where you are not paid but on the other hand, will also own the code that you are writing during that internship.
Something like an internship would be a large investment of time that doesn’t feel like it’s worth the possibility of finding a startup idea.
I guess talking to people makes sense. I was thinking at first that it’d require more context than a lunch meeting, more like a dozen hours, but on second thought you could probably at least get a sense of where the paths worth exploring more deeply are (and aren’t) in a lunch meeting.