How to Come Up With an Idea for a Business. In their book, Start Your Own Business, the staff of Entrepreneur Media, Inc. guides you through the critical steps to starting a business, then supports you in surviving the first three years as a business owner.
In this edited excerpt, the authors offer suggestions for figuring out just what kind of business you'd like to start. How do you start the business idea process? First, take out a sheet of paper, and across the top, write “Things About Me.” List five to seven things about you—things you like to do or that you’re really good at, personal things (we’ll get to your work life in a minute).
Your list might include: “I’m really good with people, I love kids, I love to read, I love computers, I love numbers, I’m a problem solver.” On the other side of the paper, list things you don’t think you’re good at or you don’t like to do. When you’re finished, ask yourself: “If there were three to five products or services that would make my personal life better, what would they be?”
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Well, let me tell you a story and all will become clear. I was out for dinner recently with a friend. The lovely waiter was really enthusiastic that we should try a particular a desert, it was like a tapas of deserts. His enthusiasm was infectious and I was tempted - except, I didn’t like any of the deserts. Or should I say, that somewhere in my past I had decided I didn’t like any of the deserts. So what did we do? We ordered the deserts. Just for fun. Just to conduct a curious experiment. Instead of eating them from the point of view ‘I don’t like these’ instead I asked the question, ‘I wonder what these will taste like?’ And you know what, they truly were awesome! How much fun was it proving myself wrong? A lot. Why am I sharing this with you? Well, it made me wonder. When was the last time you questioned what it is you think you know? What is it that you’ve decided that you know? What do you no longer question? Yes.
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At Go MAD we talk about using high quality questions when helping others with their thinking, but what is a high quality question you might ask? Well, in simple terms, a high quality question is one that generates a high quality answer or thought. As a coach the purpose of asking high quality questions is to help the people you are coaching to generate high quality answers in order to help themselves. So what makes a question high quality? Notice the question that has just been asked. “What” – makes a question high quality! Interestingly it also contains the answer to the previous question, i.e. the use of the word “what” at the start can create a high quality question. “What” and “How” might often be referred to as open questions, where the person needs to think more deeply about their answers. What specifically do you want to make a difference about? High quality questions are predominantly future and solution focused.
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