- Falling in love with a product (rather than the problem) is really dangerous
- It's really hard to build a product if you don't have a big personal investment in the problem it solves
Edit: On second though, if you can show that there is big money in solving [unlovable problem], I wont have to recast it. 1000 bay entrepreneurs will be stumbling over one another to recast it on their "Join The Team" page.
Pitching anything farm tech / data related in the bay area between 1994 - 2012 or so, would have mostly fallen on deaf ears.
Under no circumstances would you have run into a scenario of 1,000 bay area entrepreneurs stumbling over themselves to copy your farm tech startup ten years ago. You can be sure there are blind spots of opportunity today in the same way.