This is a perhaps unorthodox way to come up with startup ideas: walk around your house or apartment, and look for hot spots. A hotspot can be an area of high information density, clutter, stress, disorganization, or any place that has a suboptimal solution. Then think about a web or cloud solution to that hot spot. The author lists a few examples.
How to find start-up ideas
Posted by clickfire under StartupsFrom http://www.mattcutts.com 5209 days ago
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5207 days ago
I recently listened to inventor Hakan Lans and his summer talk radio show. He built his own submarine in his teens and his the inventor of the computer mouse.
http://egoist.blogspot.com/2005/03/inventor-hakan-lans.html
5207 days ago
The advice is spot on: find a problem in your everyday life and solve it. The author calls it "finding hot spots" and that's an apt term for it.
- Anita
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