how to find a good project or problem to solve and make money

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#1 victorantos

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Posted 10 January 2010 - 03:11 PM

Hi,

I want to build a great web application and make money.
I think I should approach companies that have money and problems.I must find a good problem to solve for companies(maybe from fortune 5000) or people.

Could you please advice me where exactly to find this list of problems that I can address?
Or do you know any of this problems?

thank you!

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Posted 10 January 2010 - 06:24 PM

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Posted 06 March 2010 - 09:59 AM

Lol if a company has money 9 times out of 10 its a fairly big company with over 30+ employees and therefor have 30+ brains to work on the problem/s
Succesful company don't have problems that NEED solving. Though they may have problems that they can afford to let slip which really doesn't make it a problem. Ha :bangb:

I think you should be a shrink, solve one persons problem/s at a time lol.

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Posted 06 March 2010 - 10:05 AM

Isn't this called sales. Persuade a company that they have a problem and convince them that you have the solution.

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Posted 07 March 2010 - 04:55 PM

HogIT, on 06 March 2010 - 10:05 AM, said:

Isn't this called sales. Persuade a company that they have a problem and convince them that you have the solution.

A Problem they didn't have in the first place? Lol that would be funny. :clapping:

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Posted 07 March 2010 - 06:27 PM

try solving the Riemann Hypothesis. im sure there is a website which has various companies problems / tasks on, with rewards if they are solved. admittedly these will require some serious brain power or a big stroke of luck!

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Posted 27 March 2010 - 09:06 AM

How about a system that keeps a soft drink can cold

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Posted 30 March 2010 - 12:11 AM

victorantos, on 10 January 2010 - 03:11 PM, said:

You're just like me except I do have an idea for a web application which I'm currently working on with barely any funds.

If you need business ideas or ideas for a web application, you could try smarterleap.com. There are other sites as well that have ideas.

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Posted 13 April 2010 - 09:54 AM

SEO Guy, on 27 March 2010 - 09:06 AM, said:

How about a system that keeps a soft drink can cold

I'm sure someone invented this already... That's right, the refridgerator.

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Posted 15 April 2010 - 11:24 AM

If anyone else figures out how to make money please be sure to tell me! :wacko:

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Posted 15 April 2010 - 12:39 PM

Here is a problem:
Most companies have an accouncy app, a crm app and then a project management app, sometimes also an invoicing app.

Someone needs to put all this s**t under one umbrella and voilla. Now, SAP and the likes are too expensive for most companies to use and are actually extremely rubbish.

Here is an example:
Sugar and VTiger are great opensource CRM's

Free Agent Central is a great accountancy tool

Dot Rpoject is rather good at project managent, web based. A company can easily use these, but how cool if they were one app that shared resources.

Integrate this with their ecomerce and merchant account and you got a winner!

BTW, anyone who now successfully developes this and takes it to market owes me 50% of their profits, thanks very much!!!