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Start a business around your biggest work frustration

"What if you commercially solve the problem that annoys you the most?"

Why this is so fun

You transform daily annoyance into creative energy and build exactly what the world is missing. Suddenly you understand why that frustration was so persistent: nobody was tackling it properly. You develop not only a solution, but also a sharp eye for what's really going on in your field.

Someone who did this

Mees (29), Rotterdam — ex-project manager, now planning tool founder

I was cursing at Excel for the umpteenth time when I thought: fuck it, I'm going to build this myself.

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First 3 steps

  1. 1Write down a list of 10 biggest work annoyances
  2. 2Interview 5 colleagues about the same problem
  3. 3Research existing solutions and their shortcomings
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