Lenny Distilled

Live in the future to find what's missing

Discovery → Opportunity Mapping

If you're living in the future and you notice what's missing, your intuition about what to build is far more likely to be right.

Mike Maples Jr.Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea
Supporting

Try to go more off the beaten path either from your personal experience... Go deeper in your own personal interests or experience to find something that just your exact peer wouldn't come up with in exactly the same way.

Dalton CaldwellLessons from 1,000+ YC startups: Resilience, tar pit ideas, pivoting, more
Supporting

An insight is a non-obvious truth about how one or more inflections can be harnessed to change people's behavior.

Mike Maples Jr.Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea
Nuanced

An inflection is an external event that creates the potential for radical change in how people think, feel, and act.

Mike Maples Jr.Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea