Misconceptions about Startups and Solving Problems

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One of the biggest misconceptions about startups and businesses is that you have to solve an unsolved problem.
The vast majority of the biggest startups in the world are just solving a problem that has already been solved, but in a new way.
The creativity comes in your solution to the problem, not in the problem itself.
Super niche, super specific, and super simple solutions can reach a new group of customers.
Growth is the hardest thing for indie hackers.

Yahia Bakour (@mynameisyahia) talks trading stocks, quitting a $250k/year job at Amazon to become an indie hacker, how to join an existing project as a late cofounder, marketing via SEO, being a night owl vs an early bird, and bootstrapping his revenue to $20k/month with Courtland (@csallen) and Channing (@ChanningAllen).