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by brackin 5046 days ago
It's a bad idea to take a startup idea from this list and attempt to make a company out of it. You have to find something you're passionate about or something you want to fix.

I seem to come up with ideas daily which was somewhat of a problem but when I wanted to work on my second company I wasn't sure what to do and tried to brainstorm ideas, this eventually failed but I did come up with an idea I'm passionate about outside of this process.

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Two things.

1) Well firstly you dont need to be passionate about something very specific. For example you can be passionate about making great websites that people love to use and thats it. Edison was passionate about inventing things (apparently also patenting them) for example.

2) I think brainstorming to think about what ideas you're passionate about is a great logical misstep( which I am also guilty of in the past). Rather, think about the things that people need and are willing to pay for and maybe ask yourself if you are really impassionate enough to not get into that market/business. (Ex: CRM Software is a booming market, yet I am too impassionate about that market to even consider getting into it.)