The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself.

Finding startup ideas is a subtle business, and that's why most people who try fail so miserably. It doesn't work well simply to try to think of startup ideas. If you do that, you get bad ones that sound dangerously plausible. The best approach is more indirect: if you have the right sort of background, good startup ideas will seem obvious to you.... See more

Live in the future, then build what's missing.If you look at the way successful founders have had their ideas, it's generally the result of some external stimulus hitting a prepared mind.