Minimum Viable Product (MVP): Definition

MVPs are learning tools that test whether an idea is valuable to users.

How to Do Great Work

The first step is to decide what to work on.

Develop a habit of working on your own projects.

How Your Brain Creates ‘Aha’ Moments and Why They Stick | Quanta Magazine

A sudden flash of insight is a product of your brain. Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha” and how it might boost memory.

Is Your Startup Idea Any Good? Borrow These Validation Tactics from the Founders of Linear, Mercury and More

Founders share the unconventional ways they found conviction in their startup ideas.

Proof That Constraints Can Actually Make You More Creative

Brainstorming, thinking outside the box, working with free reign on a project--they're old creativity maxims, but how well do they really work?

The Creativity Hack No One Told You About: Read the Obits

Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas, fueling the associations that lead to unexpected breakthroughs.

But here’s the catch: This only works if that new information is very different from what’s already in your head.

highly creative people have a different kind of memory structure — one that holds a wider range of ideas and forges more unexpected connections between them.

‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash

Can financial incentives turn innovation into a chore? A study of GitHub's efforts to sponsor software coders by Maria Roche and colleagues explores the interplay between motivation and creativity.

Scrintal is a great new tool for brainstorming ideas and projects

Organizing multistep projects can be challenging. Scrintal lets you easily focus on one element at a time.

How New Ideas Arise | The MIT Press Reader

Architect and poet Paolo Belardi traces the many conditions and situations that have inspired extraordinary ideas across the arts and sciences.

Obsidian Canvas - Obsidian

Obsidian Canvas gives you infinite space to research, brainstorm, diagram, and lay out your ideas.

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The Startup Idea Matrix

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23 Ways to Generate Startup Ideas

Creativity: 14 Ways To Find Inspiration And Originality - PsyBlog

Creativity research in psychology reveals 14 ways to increase imaginative and creativity thinking, discover new ideas and solve problems.

How to Get Startup Ideas

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Six Principles for Making New Things

Where Do Eureka Moments Come From?

Sometimes the search for creative insight requires us to focus, and sometimes it requires us to look away.

13 tips for generating new ideas | Canva

Feeling uninspired? Learn how to stay creative and keep on generating new ideas with these 13 simple yet effective tips.

The bingo method

You might need help to turn an idea into a project. Most of the time, though, project developers walk up to those that might help and say, “I have a glimmer of an idea, will you help me?&#822…

Picking a Market

In the Creative Founder, students are paired semi-randomly, and then spend a semester trying to get to product-market fit. I always start them with market selection. A market has three key elements…

The Psychology of Limitation: How Constraints Make Us More Creative

If you've ever stared at a blank page, you know the importance of creative constraints. Learn how to harness limitations for more and better ideas.

Ideation Sprints for New Products & Services

Part Two of the Needfinding/Ideation/MVP Creation Charette This is the second part of a three part essay on rapid MVP creation to start testing assumptions. Part One is here. It was written for my …

The Tool that Will Help You Choose Better Product Ideas | HackerNoon

Let’s say you manage a product that helps small businesses support their customers. You’re looking to improve customers’ engagement and retention levels. There are two ideas are on the table:

Where Do New Ideas Come From?

With close study, the genealogies of even the most original ideas can be traced

Opportunity Canvas

What are the best ways to think of ideas for a startup? - Quora

Instagram Co-Founder Mike Krieger's 8 Principles For Building Products People Want | TechCrunch

Mike Krieger, Instagram's founder thinks you can build apps that fit the real world by watching what people want, not guessing. He presented his eight core product design insights today at 500 Startups' Warm Gun conference. Here's the cheat sheet to his talk.

Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem

The Accidental Invention of Bubble Wrap

Two inventors turned a failed experiment into an irresistibly poppable product that revolutionized the shipping industry

How to explain an idea: a mega post

What's an idea? What sorts of ideas are there? And how to explain them once you have them?

Juxting – A Fountain of Ideas

This is an article about juxting — coming up with ideas by randomly juxtaposing two things and seeing the ways they could relate to each…

Ten Ideas That Have Shaped My Life - Scott H Young

The ideas that influence us aren't always obvious. Here are ten that have shaped my life, that may have the power to change yours.

Startup Idea Validation Tools

Forming Experimental Product Hypotheses | by Chris Compston | Agile Insider

An introduction to forming hypothesis statements for product experimentation.

The amazing value of early and cheap product experiments | by Caroline Parn

It’s so important to test your new product idea long before you feel ready.

Heuristics to Generate Startup Ideas – Avichal Garg

I regularly help pre-seed entrepreneurs identify and evaluate potential startup opportunities. The following is a set of heuristics I’ve developed and collected over the years that might of u…

Good Synthesis is the Start of Good Sensemaking

When you're faced with uncertainty, the best thing you can do is analyse your inputs, synthesise a new model, and then destroy it to start over again.

Idea Generation

The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup. But giving founders an idea...

To Come Up with a Good Idea, Start by Imagining the Worst Idea Possible

Working backwards and breaking free from the norm exposes new and unique opportunities you probably haven’t considered.

How to brainstorm great business ideas

It's been said that ideas don't matter, and that only execution does. I wholeheartedly disagree. You need both to succeed, but you can only get so good...

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Why Crowdsourcing Often Leads to Bad Ideas

Most crowdsourcing initiatives end up with an overwhelming amount of useless ideas. Dealing with a full submission box is not only extremely time consuming and costly, it also biases how ideas are selected: When firms receive too many ideas, they tend to focus on ideas that are…

The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

Harnessing the Power of Shower Thoughts

One of the best ways to learn and come up with new ideas is to focus intensely on a problem, then let your mind wander. I’ve enjoyed doing this when problem solving and learning, and recently I’ve been thinking about how weird it is to build trust in your unconscious to do the…

Remote Ideation: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

Asynchronous remote ideation allows people to contribute ideas whenever it’s convenient to do so, but synchronous sessions lead to faster results and more team building.

The Hidden Patterns of Great Startup Ideas

5 frameworks to help Founders coming up with a new startup idea that is the most likely to lead to a transformative company.

Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform

Second-order thinking is a mental model that smart people like Warren Buffett & Howard Marks use to avoid problems. Read this article to learn how it works.