So you need to choose a business idea to build your startup around

The how-to on this question, the question asked by capable and talented people who want to start a startup but are too rational to think “I should just do what I’m most passionate about”, is as follows:

Fabrice Grinda’s on his 9 business selection criteria and here, interviewed by me on video at Columbia.

Though I later had the chance to do a lecture on the broader related topic in my Columbia Class this spring, under the heading “Good Ideas”.

Part of it (most of it) was “where do good ideas come from”. See the lecture notes (https://beta.knotable.com/p/DmcQIg/) and some snippets from worthy authors below.

 

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