What’s the BIG Idea?

Rick Gregg March 11,2025 What do you think?

What are We Going to Build?

One of the problems we have observed in working with aspiring entrepreneurs is they come into the startup world with a pre-concieved idea that never gets thoroughly tested. The Community Startup is open to all ideas. The more the better. We’ll identify the real Market Opportunities for the ideas that the Community Startup members have using the methodology developed by Gruber and Tal in their foundational teaching entitled “Where to Play”. We’ll take our time, do this together and then proceed with business model innovation; and customer discovery and validation. When we are done figuring this all out … we’ll build something really cool. But only then. And, we’ll actually decide together which idea is right for the Community Startup to execute on. We’ll also take other promising ideas and if a group decides they would rather work on something else, we’ll fund that work too.

Don’t Have an Idea? Can’t Decide What to Work On?

We have one of our own original saaskamp ideas that needs to find a Market Opportunity. Okay. It’s more technology that anything else right now. This is absolutely the classic solution looking for a problem. One of our more recent projects was the development of an open source Internet-of-Things (IoT) SaaS Framework for building an IoT SaaS Minimal Viable Product (MVP) quickly. The reference implementation uses a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W for the IoT device. The source code along with detailed documentation is available for free under the MIT open source license. We’ll throw our hats in the ring on this idea …. errr technology …. along with all the others. May the idea with the best Market Opportunity win! We’ll also have some workshops on ideation to help you get creative.

Phase One – Bootstrapping

We’re going to need to earn our way into the funding available to the Community Startup. In other words, we have to build value before we can fund execution. How do we do this? Through ideation and an exploration of the Market Opportunity. We’ll also learn how to apply several of the leading startup methodologies to discover and create the following:

• Ideation
• Market Opportunity
• Innovative Business Model
• Customer Profile & Value Proposition
• Customer Discovery & Validation
• Business Model Canvas
• Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

Interested in exploring entrepreneurship with little downside risk while earning equity? The majority owned Community Startup may be the answer for you while staying in your current job. Sign up today. In the mean-time if you want to get a head start on where we are going, register for the free 6 week on-line course entitled “Find the right markets for your innovation – A tool for entrepreneurs and innovators for choosing which markets to play in”. We will use this methodology to evaluate all of our ideas so that as a community we can make an informed decision on Where to Play! We can’t wait to see what we create as a startup community together.