How to Get Startup Ideas

Paul Graham, essay

This lesson is an essay published on paulgraham.com.

Read the essay

What you'll get

Paul Graham says strong ideas usually start as something you wish existed and could build yourself, in an area most people haven't yet taken seriously. Notice them as they come instead of forcing a brainstorm.

Do this week

List three jobs people already ask you to do, or complain that no one does well, and mark the one you could sell to a first client within a month.