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How To Get Unique AI Startup Ideas

One of the biggest problems founders (and builders in general) have right now is not "how do I build my MVP?" but instead "what idea should I be building?" It feels like all of the good ideas are taken, and the competition for those ideas is ruthless. In this episode of Dalton + Michael, the two discuss some of the starting conditions for coming up with unique startup ideas, and why it can feel so hard to come up with something that is both: 1) something people want and 2) original. They suggest some tactics you consider trying that are more likely to yield differentiated startup ideas than derivations of whatever The Current Thing is. Dalton + Michael is brought to you by @Standard_Cap Dalton Caldwell on X: https://x.com/daltonc Michael Seibel on X: https://x.com/mwseibel

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Mar 16, 202616mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. DC

    People that are non-conformist or otherwise quirky, they constantly are generating strange ideas on their own.

  2. MS

    Yes.

  3. DC

    And if anything, society tells them, "Hey, like-

  4. MS

    Ugh. [laughs]

  5. DC

    [laughs] Like, shut up.

  6. MS

    Yeah. [laughs]

  7. DC

    Like, we don't wanna hear-

  8. MS

    Yeah

  9. DC

    ... all your dumb ideas-

  10. MS

    [laughs]

  11. DC

    ... on how to make things work better.

  12. MS

    Yeah, yeah.

  13. DC

    Right? That's like-

  14. MS

    Yes

  15. DC

    ... like the system grinds that out of you.

  16. MS

    Yes.

  17. DC

    Those people tend to do well with startups because they don't actually have any problems coming up with unique ideas.

  18. MS

    Yes. [upbeat music] All right, this is Dalton + Michael, and today we're gonna talk about how to get unique AI startup ideas. Here are a bunch of old people telling you how to get unique ideas.

  19. DC

    [laughs]

  20. MS

    Where should we start, Dalton?

  21. DC

    I mean, look-

  22. MS

    [laughs]

  23. DC

    ... the problem right now is the tools are so good-

  24. MS

    Yes

  25. DC

    ... you can crank out anything, and so the bottleneck is less building the thing, it's actually, um, having an idea, and the problem is most ideas are extremely non-unique.

  26. MS

    Yes, and I- I would even go so far as to say many founders out there are not even being encouraged to come up with unique ideas. Like, they're almost being encouraged to, like, what just raised, what just raised a seed round, what sounds good to investors, just tell me how I can get funded, Dalton.

  27. DC

    [laughs]

  28. MS

    Just tell me what idea-

  29. DC

    Yeah

  30. MS

    ... gets me funded. [laughs]

Episode duration: 16:21

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