Lesson 1: Ideation
What You’ll Learn: A business is only as good as its ideas. In this section, you’ll learn how to harness the power of ideation, leading you through a series of useful tools and techniques to increase your chances of success by looking at your own potential and finding those powerful nuggets that will quickly rise to the top.
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Assignments
- Identify a solution for something in your life that bothers you. Create a problem journal.
- Think about things you are passionate about that you could add value to by making it more efficient, cheaper and fun.
- Survey your friends and family and ask them how would they change things in their world.
- Pretend you are a manger in your current occupation and imagine how you would make it easier for your customers or colleagues.
- Examine the product or service at an existing business and how it could be used for a different purpose or different market. Shift your perspective in a new light. Look beyond a product or services common function.
- Review your work history and examine what you liked and disliked about the job.
- Determine what it would take to turn your hobby into a money-making career.
- Attend startup weekends and see what ideas other entrepreneurs are proposing.
- Observe economic, social, technological, political and regulatory trends and think about how you can address an issue related to them.
- Ask your children what products they would like to change or have in the market. They are the targets for any future product or service.
- Dedicate a notebook to ideas that you come across in your daily life.