How to know if your idea is good? What can you do to come up with a profitable idea? Where is the market for my idea? 1. What we need to do first is look within. What are you naturally good at, passionate about, have extensive knowledge. 2. What are thing that you notice as problems with in the areas that you are naturally good at, passionate about, have extensive knowledge? 3. What is going to keep you going even when times are tough? Purpose? 4. Think of specific skills you have (ex. I am a programmer). A broader skill (ex. I can teach programming really well.) 5. Use those skills to solve the problem. This could be your business idea. 6 You don't need it all figured out. But research is important and where many people fail. 7. Use google trend and/or google keyword planner to search for key words related to your idea. WHat are you finding. Competition, products, ideas you can make better ect. 8. How to overcome competition? 9. Learn from feedback? 10. Tweak!