“Build first, find a market later” mindset will kill your business

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1. Find a problem

2. Make sure it's a common problem

3. Check that it is a valuable problem - lots of people forget this!

4. Solve the problem

5. Reach all the people with the problem using Sales and Marketing

6. Profit!

You could swap 4 and 5? Or parallelize them?

Hmm, so what was the problem that Facebook solved? Or instagram? What was exactly the problem Pepsi solved, or most junk food industry? Walt Disney? A weird orb scanning your retina for $50?

Additionally, What if your business is/was a little but “proactive” and created a problem to propose a solution for it later?

>Hmm, so what was the problem that Facebook solved?

"A "face book" is a student directory featuring photos and personal information. In 2003, Harvard had only a paper version along with private online directories."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

There isn’t a generic set of steps for all businesses, but this set seems like it would get you to a safe-ish bet. rather than a moonshot, which I think is what many programming minded people would benefit from.

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