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The advice people tend to give to build a successful startup is to solve problems you encounter yourself. But how do I come up with marketable solutions if I'm already an expert in solving problems in my own manner?

Common job boards offer searching by keyword, function title, industry, ... which I believe most graduates are not familiar with. Why not create a job board where graduates can search by their obtained degree instead? The returned results would only contain job offers that require no previous experience as well.

I've owned a laptop repair shop for 6 years now and my customers always keep asking me the same two questions:1) What kind of laptop do you recommend? I only need it for reading my e-mails, browsing some websites and saving my photos.2) Can you make my laptop faster?I am wondering if I could sell laptops that come with a clean copy of Windows? This way they don't contain any bloatware, which...

I see all these job boards with functionalities like uploading your resume, browsing by sector/region/..., countless blog posts about improving your work life, ... Is it really necessary for consumers to have those functionalities available? What do you except from a job board?

Presented in a concise problem-solving manner, so I don't waste your valuable time.Subproblem 1:People still have to enter all details about their personal contacts (e.g. address, phone numbers, e-mail accounts, birthday, …) manually in their address book, phone, computer, ... This is quite a tedious task. There should be an easier way to do this.Subproblem 2:The details about your personal...

I have a lot of ideas crossing my mind lately. I need people to comment on them. I can't figure out myself whether they are useful or not. I'm too focused, one might say. Friends and family aren't an option, because they're just not interested. I don't blame them. I want honest opinions from complete strangers. Where do you discuss about your idea(s)?

Reddit, digg, ... all focus on several interests (f.e. technology, fun, news, music, video, ...). Would it be wise to build an aggregator that is solely intended for a certain market niche (f.e. technology)?

-- Current situation --* 23 years old* no degree* studying CS (first year in college)* knowledge of C/C++, Python & Objective-C* been repairing computers, cell phones (f.e. iPhone), ... since I was 18 (check my website)* resentment against the way college teaches-- My dream --* building my own startup (eBay competitor)-- Why can I succeed? --* autodidact* not afraid of working hard* sense...

Should I master discrete math, calculus, algebra, ... before starting my own startup? Is it important to know all kinds of (sorting) algorithms (bubble sort, insertion sort, radix sort, ...) before creating a web product? I'm just wondering. Keep in mind that I'm not financially able to hire software engineers.

We've been together for 5 years now. She's an architectural engineer and I'm currently studying for a bachelor of computer science. I'm the one who comes up with the business ideas and she comments on them. She's actually my advisor. She doesn't know any programming, but is great at math. I know a few programming languages, but haven't really build anything (except for my website). The reason I...