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Re:How I Crashed and Burned in Y Combinator by rdtsc on Saturday January 10, 2015 @10:48PM (#8868957)
> We researched Bitcoins, smart devices, 3D printing, biometrics, and a host of other industries.

Is this common? As in people first decide they want to do a "startup thing". Then they fish for idea. Just curious, is this how most startup idea begin?

I kind of thought it was always someone first having a burning and interesting idea that eventually they want to develop and it gets developed as a startup or patent or something like that.

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Re:How I Crashed and Burned in Y Combinator by GoLocalApps on Monday January 12, 2015 @02:12PM (#8875774)
Probably more common than you'd think. Brainstorming for new ideas or looking for something that doesn't work as well as you think it should or seems to be "missing" is a valid way of trying to start a business. You may not be passionate about it, but if it can make money, you can be passionate about that.
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