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Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
It’s because we often fall in love with our idea of the solution we want to build before falling in love with a problem that we experience while living in the future. “Falling in love with a solution” highlights the danger that founders, creators, or teams can become so enamored with their particular product or service—their “solution”—that they ov... See more
Mike Maples • 🔮 Living in the future
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Fall in love with the problem, not with the solution.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Fall in love with the problem, not with the solution.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
But one of the most important lessons in our industry is to fall in love with the problem, not the solution.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
“Fall in love with problems rather than solutions.”
-from ‘Non-Obvious Thinking’ by Rohit Barghava and Ben DuPont
Forest Linden added
Often, we fall in love with our favorite solution and then define the problem as the absence of that solution. “The problem is, we need a better three-legged lander.” “The problem is, we don’t have enough incubators.”
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies for Giant Leaps in Work and Life
Why is it so important to work on a problem you have? Among other things, it ensures the problem really exists. It sounds obvious to say you should only work on problems that exist. And yet by far the most common mistake startups make is to solve problems no one has.
Paul Graham • How to Get Startup Ideas
Ajinkya Wadhwa added
The key is to focus those insights on behaviors, not on how we create them. You have to fall in love with the problem, not the solution.
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
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