| I have the opposite problem. I have too many ideas. I am getting development skills to turn some of them into reality. You cannot judge ideas as good or bad, unless you test them out with the right target set. Ideas can be bad if they are based on wrong assumptions and the only way to refute an assumption is to produce evidence contrary to it. And customer validation is the best step. Some steps to come up with ideas (good or bad) : 1. Help people, try to find every opportunity to people. Most of my ideas present themselves as a solution to someone else's problem. Volunteer, help in office, help someone launch their biz using your development magic etc. etc. There are just too many problems in the world. Check out http://www.founder2be.com/ . Maybe you can get some interesting problem. 2. Try to make a list of 10 ideas everyday, doesn't matter good or bad. 3.Some ideas are born out of desperation. An awesome Evernote client for Linux anyone? I am still hopeful. But sometimes you have no other choice but to scratch your own itch. 4. Start assigning yourself interesting stuff (that you actually have fun to do) rather than anyone else dictating your day. This is the toughest part. You have to come up with ideas that are fun and/or interesting and/or meaningful to you. Most of the time we are working on problems dictated by boss, customers, monetary pressures. Only when we are working to satisfy our creativity we will be satisfied. It is difficult and can only happen if you are just trying something for fun or able to set the vision in your startup. If you can align your goals with the vision of your organization, that would be awesome. But in most of the cases it is not so. Anyways back to work, got to ramp up my development skills to contribute more to the world. All the best, Sir. |