Couple things stand out - your articulation of the fast vs slow vs personal way of picking a problem to solve with a startup, the real estate analogy, and your references to Naval (always good).
Question on your startup - why did you work on it in parallel with PKM when you already knew after the conference that you needed to stop? I found that fascinating!
In hindsight it wasn't probably wise to do both, haha – But it was more of a gradual shift of interests than a sudden change. So it sort of faded in the background. Normally just a few weeks of 'not working' on a startup is enough for it to die!
Brainstorming definitely seems like the worst way to come up with startup ideas, if you’re imagining the solution you are also imagining the problem, which may or may not actually exist as you imagine it.
I don’t think Tiago has an app for BASB since he lets people use whatever note taking/organization app etc they like so it might be interesting to make one.
But I don’t know if he has a trademark on “Building a Second Brain”, might want to check if you’re thinking of including that in your product name.
Good point – I don't plan on using it in a brand context though; I try to always credit it whenever I use it. But I guess BASB goes with an underlying assumption that it's super familiar anyway
Couple things stand out - your articulation of the fast vs slow vs personal way of picking a problem to solve with a startup, the real estate analogy, and your references to Naval (always good).
Question on your startup - why did you work on it in parallel with PKM when you already knew after the conference that you needed to stop? I found that fascinating!
In hindsight it wasn't probably wise to do both, haha – But it was more of a gradual shift of interests than a sudden change. So it sort of faded in the background. Normally just a few weeks of 'not working' on a startup is enough for it to die!
Brainstorming definitely seems like the worst way to come up with startup ideas, if you’re imagining the solution you are also imagining the problem, which may or may not actually exist as you imagine it.
I don’t think Tiago has an app for BASB since he lets people use whatever note taking/organization app etc they like so it might be interesting to make one.
But I don’t know if he has a trademark on “Building a Second Brain”, might want to check if you’re thinking of including that in your product name.
Good point – I don't plan on using it in a brand context though; I try to always credit it whenever I use it. But I guess BASB goes with an underlying assumption that it's super familiar anyway