What are the Solutions to these Problems? (Part 4)

A good startup will provide a simple solution to an aggravating problem. In our last post we mentioned some of the problems in today’s world. In this post I will outline some ways we can implement the three I’s to come up with a useful solution to these problems.

Sleep/Stress/Organization- As I thought more and more about this, these three problems all go under the subject of ‘time management’ and that really is an issue for many people. The whole “I got a lot of work/homework but I want freetime” thing is quite cumbersome because it takes a lot of personal initiative. The main solution would just be to have a set time to do work and then a set time to play around so there is no procrastination. It actually takes some getting used to because some people just go on long work marathons or play marathons and that gets nothing done. Doing work in sections is also a helpful tip but Lifehack does its job for giving tips on productivity. The only thing that someone hasn’t done is find a way to get work done by itself. But we all know that is impossible =(

Tech-savvyness- How do we engage people into the internet through the internet? Well besides guides and tips, it will really take the initiative to get a lot of the older generation to learn new techniques to make life faster and easier. The ability to change homepages and keyboard shortcuts is still new to a lot of people. I saw on tv some program this guy is selling that promises to teach you how to use the computer and thought “wow, another way to corrupt people”. In order to gain ‘tech-savvyness’ it once again takes personal initiative but what about providing a service for other websites to make them more user-friendly?

Boredom- I took this idea from an old favorite www.i-am-bored.com. It was really popular around 2004 but then just kinda stayed there. Looking back, it hasn’t evolved much since then either and could use a facelift or a whole new rampup. Innovating the same idea and making it web 2.0 or a combo with digg is an interesting idea. Maybe that might work…

Money- We can provide financial tips and portfolio management but that is already done by many top-execs. To innovate this we can make it free but the work isn’t enough for the reward. Other than that we don’t want to make any of those ‘get rich quick’ schemes so web 2.0 can help facilitate money by ads but Google was wise to make AdSense. Maybe a service where easily persuaded teens are exchanging items with commission fees?

So this is basically my mindmapping as you can see the sentences are all like I am talking to myself. Yeah I can just do this in real life too but I decided to blog this stuff so it stays written somewhere. I also like to mention this great website called IdeaShower I encountered the other day. The owner, Nate, just keeps a record of all his ideas and numbers them and I hope many of his succeed. His current two, Charade Ideas and the Firefox Add-on Read It Later, have been a hit so far. Check it out!

Stay tuned for part 5- Where are the profits?

Previously:
Why form a startup? (Part 1)
Why use web 2.0? (Part 2)
What problems can we solve? (Part 3) 

~Kevin X