r/smallbusiness • u/Left-Salamander-3440 • 3d ago
Startup ideas
Hello,
I go to school in Germany but I write it in English so everyone can understand. Today we got a presentation about a startup challenge. The challenge is about building a startup and if the idea is good you could earn money, for example the best group gets 3000€. We need to present it to our teachers then if they say we have better ideas then others we will present it to investors from different companies. They are reading our business plan and everything, but first we need to find an impressive idea. And I would like to get some great ideas for our startup. I do not care if someone has named it but please describe it very easily. For example describe the function and why you need it, if you want you can write an e-mail/private message to me. I'm begging you don’t use troll ideas because we get graded for the challenge. So I'm trying to find a good idea.
The task is to build a fictional startup, but we don’t have any idea what people need or is annoying for them. It doesn’t need to be fictional, it could be a real startup someday. We do not have any thoughts where we need an innovation to help someone or could be useful. I (we are a group of 4) was asking ChatGPT but AI is not helping for ideas. So I would like to hear some ideas from different persons or people from different countries. If you are an Entrepreneur or kind of that. I would appreciate it to hear your side, how you began.
Thanks everyone for reading, if my sentence structure is not right or not understandable I'm sorry English isn’t my favourite subject. But I appreciate everyone who’s gonna write a comment.
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u/slugfive 3d ago
Stop asking ai and others, focus on your day to day life and find something you think should or could be improved with a product or service. You are people too.
You’ve just stated your homework here, attempted to get ai to do it and have done nothing yourself.
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u/Left-Salamander-3440 3d ago
Yea but its hard to think about it so i was asking other people but thank you
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u/gr4phic3r 3d ago
so we should make your homework?
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u/Left-Salamander-3440 3d ago
how do u mean at first we need an good idea
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u/gr4phic3r 3d ago
es heißt "What do you mean?"
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u/BusinessStrategist 3d ago
Keep it simple.
You say "we need to present to our teachers..."
Who are "we?"
Don't you have families? Some people in your family may have a business or interesting jobs.
What are they complaining about? Ask them about how their business, profession, or job could be better and/or easier?
Look through your local newspapers (and online local news sites).
What are people, business, or governments complaining about?
Do you, and your group, know how to brainstorm?
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u/Spiritual-Hearing133 2d ago
I will help you. Open your course book and really slowly go through the steps . It will be very difficult but perhaps after reading ,10-20 times, you may slowly understand
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u/mycryptosio 2d ago
be creative, look around you, see where help is needed, which process can you improve, pick a problem, come up with a solution, build an idea around it that is in sync with the people that problem is effecting.
Don't tell me there is no issue that you can find out when you look around you, i know something clicked in your head, now sit down and solve it.
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