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How did you find a problem worth solving? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by Snukers115@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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I'm new to this sub and I've done some poking around. It seems that the unanimous advice in this sub for people looking to become an entrepreneur is 'find a problem and sell the solution'.

I'm from a poor family and I'm just a simple working folk. I've been trying to think of a way to break free from that life most of my adult years but have never found a way to make it happen.

So my question is. Since I've been trying to find a problem to solve for most of my life and failing to do so. How can I make a shift to really find that problem I can solve? It seems most people in here have businesses. What problem did you solve and how did you figure out that problem to begin with?

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[–] ReliableReviewer@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Experience. I'm in logistics, and there are so many problems within that industry I have ideas about, but after starting my first company and knowing all the hard work I went through I don't have the time to do it again. Pick an industry, learn about it, after understanding the industry you will find opportunities.

For example, 15 yrs ago I worked at a mattress company. We were spending hundreds on customer returns to get the mattresses returned. I had an idea to start a company that would pick up the returned mattresses for free for the business, in exchange for letting me sell them online used. I never went through with it and now there are several of these making really good money.

Problem was the business had to spend a lot of money on these returns and it was a hassle. Solution was to alleviate that for them, saving them tens of thousands of dollar.