[freejack]

I couldn't agree more. We're in Toronto and I'm often left scratching my head asking "Why" after reading Techcrunch, HN and other startup-centric sources. If you aren't solving a problem for a customer, then you are wasting effort. Problems come in many shapes and forms - seek them out and solve them better than anyone else, that's the secret to a successful business in a nutshell.

[jmitcheson]

In some cases the customer is the investor; the product is the startup. Or so it seems.