The Ideation Phase - Business Ideas
The Ideation Phase - Business Ideas
Now we come to the phase of finding a business idea in a day :D Let's get started!
This list and the ideas of where to look for ideas are coming from Noah Kagan. The business ideas themselves are coming from myself.
With that, let’s get started.
Solve your own problems
What is one thing that irritated me this morning/today?
That my room is so small here in New York and the ceiling is lower than my size in parts of the room (26th April 24)
That there aren’t good healthy food options in New York to eat for breakfast, but only cafes (26th April 24)
That the tips are consistently at $15 as a starter (26th April 24)
That I have to sit down to write my Newsletter and cannot just write it per speaking (26th April 24)
That I have to do my taxes, but the process of getting all relevant info for it is painful (26th April 24)
That I sometimes have anaysis paralysis (26th April 24)
That I don’t know to which event I should go in the evening given the large amount of options. Which will serve me best? (26th April 24)
That I am often having cold hands/feet when it is cold (24th April 24)
What is one thing on my todo list that is there for over a week?
Well, lets face some honesty here 😅
Doing my taxes (24th April 24)
Sending over my CV for a job (24th April 24)
Going over to places to find a place for an event I want to organize (24th April 24)
Figuring out my key target group and sending them messages that convert (24th April 24)
Transfering money securely and cheap from non-US to the US (24th April 24)
Connect to networks in New York to get to know them better (24th April 24)
Write the first articles on Manhattan Momentum (24th April 24)
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What is one thing that I regularly fail to do well?
Well, now it gets even more personal ;)
Quickly and effectively making decisions and stick to them (24th April 24)
Not getting sidetracked by other people’s opinion, shiny new ideas, ideation or other things (24th April 24)
Do my admin work quick and effectively, I fail to start directly (24th April 24)
Drink enough water if the day is not clearly outlined (24th April 24)
Calming down. I love to be active. So I sometimes listen to my body too late. (24th April 24)
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What is one thing I recently wanted to buy and failed to find it?
A Value Tester Matrix for my own values (24th April 24)
An all-in complete solution no-code for my website plus membership site plus info what is the best solution for it (24th April 24)
Someone or a tool that is more effective in helping me find my strengths (24th April 24)
A tool where I can write short snippets of text, do a quick recording (that filters background noise) with my phone and have all my ideas, notes and co in one dynamic tool that I can then use to search for relevant information (24th April 24)
A content creator tool where I can post easily and regularly a broad range of short notes and upload them via one click (24th April 24)
A way to easily scrape the internet for company and people data for free (24th April 24)
A better and more suitable CRM for me personally, my contacts from all relevant tools and an info of events going on with them, meetings, messages, structured by type of contacts and easily updated across platforms (24th April 2024)
A note-taker of my calls, but not via zoom, for video calls only, but also for phone calls and in the background so people do not see this annoying ‘note taker’ (24th April 24)
A better task app connected to my personal CRM (24th April 24)
No place to stack my bag, sports shoes or else to when going to an event in town (24th April 24)
Difficulty finding beautiful, high quality clothing for me as a tall woman that loves patterns, colors, design (24th April 24)
With that we close that evergrowing list of personal challenges and move to more impersonal ones :)
Bestsellers are your best friend
Now this is about good, well-known and sold products and on making them better.
For example: Offer to make Nike shoes better through add-on design. Or someone bought an Xbox and you offer to do a training for an XBox.
With that in mind, let’s collect ideas for that.
People buy Framer Website Templates and I help them adapt them to their needs - color system, design, copy writing (26th april 24)
People buy books. Making video books out of them (26th April 24)
Companies buy Sales Navigator. Offering trainings for that and Sales on Linkedin for them (26th April 24)
People are switching from single-app use to multi-app use via automation and integration. Helping them connect the apps and choose wich apps to connect (24th April 24)
People are using consistently more NoCode tools to build apps and products. Helping them use those tools like Airtable+Softr, Webflow, Framer, Notion, etc (24th April 24)
People are switching back to in-person meetups after Covid. Helping them finding the right ones (24th April 24)
People are switching more and more to Linkedin to brand themselves professionally. Offering Linkedin Branding Support. (24th April 24)
People want to get jobs in Tech but dont know how to get in. Make it available to them (24th April 24)
People go from Recruiters for job search to Hiring Managers. Those that do are often more successful. Helping otjers add on that success. (24th April 24)
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Marketplaces
Now we enter the world of marketplaces. Lets see what ideas we can come up here. As Noah points out, what is important here is to choose and look at Marketplaces where people TRYING to spend money. His examples are Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, Etsy, Teespring, Shopify, ebay.
So let’s have a look at them.
Craigslist
Most job offers are in the fields of transportation, sales and hospitality/food/bev. Even more people try to get jobs