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?

  • Code4Kicks@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Every problem I built a company around, I had the problem and couldn’t find solutions.

    • WhizzlePizzle@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’d like to pick my ass with my fingers, and then smell my fingers, but my arms are too short. I created some arm lengthening products specially designed to pick my ass and allow me to smell them - the tips of the arm products, at the false fingers, were some materials to maximize the collection of the stinky.

      They worked perfectly around the problem I had.

      I went to work, I massed produced them and came up with the original name of “Butt Picker^TM”

      I poured in millions of dollars into this groundbreaking product. People say business is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration, well I poured in perspiration. I spend millions on getting the best operations person, the best marketing person, the best salespeople, the best CFO. I kept the business afloat for 3 years, because I believe in the maxim 99% perspiration.

      Unfortunately, we never sold one Butt Picker^TM

      I solved the problem I was having and got a solution, but alas and alack, nobody else picks their ass and then smells their fingers afterwards, I guess. Just me.