A playbook for Generating Business Ideas

9 High Growth Tech Startup Ideas
I’ve used some of the “rogue” customer development methodologies discussed
in this book to determine the starting points of the below business ideas. I
haven’t done any customer development interviews or experiments to prove that
these could actually be businesses. I’ve simply used secondary strategies to gain
customer insights to inform a general offering. The specifics and features would
need to be shaped based on primary customer feedback. The strategies I’ve used
to generate these ideas are generally based on: a. Solving validated needs with
superior solutions by taking advantage of new technologies. For example, Uber
is solving for the basic need of transportation but taking advantage of mobile to
provide a superior solution. You’ll notice the value propositions of most of these
products are very basic, age old, human needs.
b. Providing validated solutions to needs of new markets. This means taking
something that one market wants and providing it to another. For example, many
of the solutions needed on desktops are now needed on mobile. Most of the
business ideas below are based on serving a currently small market that I expect
to grow. While growing, the market would likely need many solutions that are
needed by other markets.
You’ll also note that I don’t fear competition, and rather see that as validation (a
customer development “shortcut”), and that I’m targeting large and/or growing
markets.
Here’s my list. Feel free to steal one!