Key Mental Models for Ideation

There are several approaches to ideation for a startup.

Consider these mental models for your ideation:

Solving a customer problem — focus on reducing the cost or increasing the convenience of the solution.

Transfer a solution — this takes a solution from one industry and applies it to another.

Disruption — provide a better solution to an existing market where the competition is antiquated.

Replicate success — take a successful business and apply the business model to another industry or application.

Bundling — create a new product by bundling two or more functions together.

Unbundling — take a current business apart by creating a solution for a subset of its offering.

Remove the intermediaries — create a solution that removes the middleman.

Predict the future — extrapolate current trends to identify how the future will look and build a solution for that.

Backcasting — develop a non-consensual view of the world and develop solutions for that world.

Consider these mental models in ideating for your next startup.

 

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