Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution: A Handbook for Entrepreneurs

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There’s a lot in it that I agree with and would probably give the same advice to companies I was advising. Continuously referring back to your vision statement is one way to demonstrate your love for the problem. One thing I particularly appreciated about the book was Levine's emphasis on the role of empathy in entrepreneurship. From the beginning of Waze, after we joined forces in 2007, it was clear that a GPS-powered mapping/driving/traffic app was exactly what we were going to build.

Their mission to help drivers to avoid traffic jams as the North Star for our journey from the first day. g. support for women-ran small businesses, campaigns to raise awareness of gender discrimination, etc. There are two things in the Israeli environment that makes it an amazing ecosystem for startups in general. Once you’ve found a really difficult problem that almost seems impossible to solve and are willing to stick to, you can start dreaming big. The reality is that every startup is different, the context in which they are operating is unique to them, and what makes sense at one point in the journey may not be the right choice later in the journey.

No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. However, by the time I finished the book, I had a picture in my mind of how the book might have been developed. But then I would ask them the most important question: When did you know that the team is not correct? The following is adapted from "Founder vs Investor: The Honest Truth About Venture Capital from Startup to IPO" by Elizabeth Zalman and Jerry Neumann. If you run an experiment and only validate what you already expected to happen, you can pat yourself on the back, but there was no breakthrough.Think of a problem—a big problem, something worth solving, something that would make the world a better place.

The traffic app was founded on the simple premise, "people driving ahead of you know something you really need to know". Not a lack of funding, not bad product-market fit, but a lack of motivation to try something else and find another way to solve that problem when their first solution doesn’t work out. This organisation would define its programmatic priorities only after having completed this process, framing interventions based on its intimate knowledge of the local dynamics and capabilities. On busy roads and intersections, there is traffic every day between 8 am and 9 am and between 4 pm and 6 pm, and on the same road at midnight, there is no traffic!This was a critical issue for both our visions because without maps it would be impossible to build a critical mass of users that would generate actionable traffic information.