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I think that is part of the problem. Starting out with only a vague idea of what the product will be sounds very unwise.

Successful businesses I have worked at have started out solving a real problem for someone (in a business) - with that person telling us that they know other businesses have the same problem.

If someone in an industry comes to you with a problem - and they have worked in the industry sufficiently long enough to have been in multiple companies - they can give you a pretty good idea of what size the prize might be.

The difficulty a lot of us have working in software is that we don’t really get enough exposure to these people.



This is right on the money (speaking from experience)!

Simple and superb root cause analysis!




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