{"id":13539,"date":"2020-11-12T21:26:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T21:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabricegrinda.com\/?p=13539"},"modified":"2022-03-20T08:48:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T08:48:24","slug":"episode-9-coming-up-with-a-startup-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/episode-9-coming-up-with-a-startup-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 9: Coming Up with a Startup Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many aspiring entrepreneurs struggle to come with compelling startup ideas. I detail the four sources of startup ideas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Observed pain points<\/li><li>Geographic arbitrage<\/li><li>Business model or approach arbitrage<\/li><li>Verticalization<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I discuss how to quickly determine whether the idea is worth pursuing further. I also share tips and tricks on ideation and early validation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/fj-labs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arne Halleraker<\/a>, who co-heads investing at FJ Labs, joins to share the startup ideas he came up with for our most recent FJ Labs ideation session this past August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Episode 9:  Coming Up with a Startup Idea\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O4DO9TN6B-8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For your reference I am including the slides Jeff used during the episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t<div class=\"wppdfemb-frame-container-1\" style=\"-webkit-overflow-scrolling:auto;\">\n\t\t\t<iframe class=\"pdfembed-iframe nonfullscreen wppdf-emb-iframe-1\"\n\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/?pdfemb-data=eyJwZGZJRCI6MTM1NDQsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOlwvXC9mYWJyaWNlZ3JpbmRhLmNvbVwvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyMFwvMTFcL0NvbWluZy1VcC13aXRoLWEtU3RhcnR1cC1JZGVhLnBkZiIsImluZGV4IjoxfQ\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-pdf-id=\"13544\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-pdf-index=\"1\"\n\t\t\t\tstyle=\"border:none;width:100%;max-width:100%;height:100vh;\"\n\t\t\t\tscrolling=\"yes\">\n\t\t\t<\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you prefer, you can listen to the episode in the embedded podcast player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/16787456\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/000000\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" oallowfullscreen=\"\" msallowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the above Youtube video and embedded podcast player, you can also listen to the podcast on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>iTunes:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/coming-up-with-a-startup-idea\/id1532336635?i=1000498367888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/coming-up-with-a-startup-idea\/id1532336635?i=1000498367888<\/a><\/li><li>Spotify:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/15EALBIgYckACRU2GIxVSY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/15EALBIgYckACRU2GIxVSY?si=hF3SgfKKQGCMB46yHlUeew<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many aspiring entrepreneurs struggle to come with compelling startup ideas. I detail the four sources of startup ideas: Observed pain points Geographic arbitrage Business model or approach arbitrage Verticalization I &hellip; <a href=\"\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playing-with-unicorns"],"acf":[],"contentUpdated":"Episode 9: Coming Up with a Startup Idea. Categories - Playing with Unicorns. Date-Posted - 2020-11-12T21:26:46 . \n Many aspiring entrepreneurs struggle to come with compelling startup ideas. I detail the four sources of startup ideas:\n Observed pain pointsGeographic arbitrageBusiness model or approach arbitrageVerticalization\n I discuss how to quickly determine whether the idea is worth pursuing further. I also share tips and tricks on ideation and early validation.\n Arne Halleraker, who co-heads investing at FJ Labs, joins to share the startup ideas he came up with for our most recent FJ Labs ideation session this past August.\n For your reference I am including the slides Jeff used during the episode.\n \t\t\n \t\t\t\n \t\t\t\n \t\t\n \t\t\n If you prefer, you can listen to the episode in the embedded podcast player.\n In addition to the above Youtube video and embedded podcast player, you can also listen to the podcast on:\n iTunes:&nbsp;https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/coming-up-with-a-startup-idea\/id1532336635?i=1000498367888Spotify:&nbsp;https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/15EALBIgYckACRU2GIxVSY?si=hF3SgfKKQGCMB46yHlUeew\n ","Category":["Playing with Unicorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13539"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18498,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539\/revisions\/18498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}