I also have a few currently that I'm slightly more passionate which are not on the list. But still haven't found The One True Idea. I do know my general area of interest, though, which is e-learning, personal development, and skill acquisition.
In hindsight, several of "my" ideas have been turned into workable startups (example off the top of my head: Verbling).
I think I have two main challenges:
1) I'm too critical of my ideas.
2) I have a hard time getting started and evaluating my ideas. I would like to be able to create quick mock-ups of lots of ideas and test them quickly against the market.
My strengths:
1) Lots of ideas, very creative
2) Technical skills (programmer)
3) Already have a team in place around the world and locally + lots of potential team mates who I trust
4) Already have execution/management experience on a project (Interesting Times Magazine) - sure, it's not software but I'm still VERY familiar with the entrepreneurial emotion roller-coaster
All in all, this new stance from Y Combinator is giving me some hope for the future. Now I just need to sit down and write a good pitch. How would you guys rate my chances? Any tips?
I think you should research a bit after coming up with an idea. For a lot of ideas I see in your website, there are existing solutions(which is not surprising, since I assume you haven't really delved a lot into it).
I have experienced it a lot while doing projects; starting with something i thought was cool, did a bit of research couldn't find anything similar, worked on it for a couple of weeks, then finding out the product does exist in the market already.
Overall, I think you have a really creative mind and should start working on some of your ideas, to make best use of it :).
Overall, I think you have a really creative mind and should start working on some of your ideas, to make best use of it :).
Me too :) I just need to partner up with someone who is more grounded and has the mindset of testing everything. I live too much in my intuition and ideaspace.
I also have a few currently that I'm slightly more passionate which are not on the list. But still haven't found The One True Idea. I do know my general area of interest, though, which is e-learning, personal development, and skill acquisition.
In hindsight, several of "my" ideas have been turned into workable startups (example off the top of my head: Verbling).
I think I have two main challenges:
1) I'm too critical of my ideas.
2) I have a hard time getting started and evaluating my ideas. I would like to be able to create quick mock-ups of lots of ideas and test them quickly against the market.
My strengths:
1) Lots of ideas, very creative
2) Technical skills (programmer)
3) Already have a team in place around the world and locally + lots of potential team mates who I trust
4) Already have execution/management experience on a project (Interesting Times Magazine) - sure, it's not software but I'm still VERY familiar with the entrepreneurial emotion roller-coaster
All in all, this new stance from Y Combinator is giving me some hope for the future. Now I just need to sit down and write a good pitch. How would you guys rate my chances? Any tips?