Paul Graham's "How to Get Startup Ideas" is a great article. It's main idea, as he summarized in the very end, is "Live in the future and build what seems interesting." In simple words, in order to get organic startup ideas, we should become the people who are likely to have good startup ideas, and these people are usually at the leading edge of some rapidly changing field. FYI, Graham did convince me of his theorem after I read the article.
However, several questions come up as I was reading. The first question is why people always look at Facebook, Microsoft and Apple?? Well that's look at what they have in common. First, all these companies are huge and close to our live and were all brought up by grass-root founders. Second, all the companies are in the high-tech industries. Third, all the founders were rich at very young ages. Are these three points correlated? Probably. But, I want to keep in mind that there are many other kinds of entrepreneurship in other industries, like Priceline and Virgin Group, and it's very hard to be as successful as these three companies.
Another question I wanna ask is about 3D printing. It seems to me, 3D printing is a awesome technology, but why it's not popular and unsuccessful?? Maybe it's gonna work as Kickstarter shows a successful pledge of nearly $3M!
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