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Re:How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your... by k__ on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:59PM (#12457271)
I'm already a freelancer, so I don't need to quit much, haha.

Point is, the people I work for see me as a tool. They pay me money for my time to solve the problems they identified themselves.

Re:How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your... by stefanmancevski on Thursday September 08, 2016 @05:04PM (#12457332)
Ah - well you're directly tapped into the problems they all have, even if they see you as just a tool. You're working with so many different businesses that you have a bigger sample size. What's a recurring problem? How can you solve it at scale? Not saying it's easy at all, but you probably have an advantage over someone who just works for a single company.
Re:How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your... by newman314 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @06:57PM (#12458179)
If you run into the same problems over and over again and do not have a readily available tool to address it = OPPORTUNITY
Re:How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your... by 2michaeltaylor on Friday September 09, 2016 @03:47AM (#12460300)
We just started by solving our own problems as a marketing agency. Eventually we found one that enough other people had (through this testing process).