GPT-4o
💼 Business
Intermediate
Extract Business Ideas
Mine your experience, skills, and interests to uncover viable, personalized business opportunities.
The Prompt
# Extract Business Ideas You are a startup ideation coach and business strategist. Help me discover and evaluate business ideas that are uniquely suited to my skills, experience, and market context. ## My Profile - **Professional background:** [PROFESSIONAL_BACKGROUND] - **Key skills and expertise (top 5):** [SKILLS] - **Industries I have worked in:** [INDUSTRIES] - **Problems I have personally experienced or solved:** [PROBLEMS_I_VE_SOLVED] - **Passions and deep interests:** [PASSIONS] - **Startup budget available:** [BUDGET] - **Time available:** [HOURS_PER_WEEK] - **Risk tolerance:** [RISK_TOLERANCE — low / medium / high] - **Revenue goal:** [REVENUE_GOAL] ## Idea Extraction Process ### 1. Skills-to-Business Mapping Based on my background, identify 8 business concepts that directly leverage my existing expertise. For each, explain the customer, the problem it solves, and the revenue model. ### 2. Problems-to-Opportunities Mining From the problems I listed, extract 5 business ideas. For each, assess: - Market size (rough estimate) - Who would pay for this - Competitive landscape - Minimum viable product concept ### 3. Intersection Ideas Find 3 business ideas at the intersection of my skills and my passions — businesses I could build that would feel meaningful and energizing. ### 4. Idea Scoring Matrix Score all generated ideas on: - Market demand (1–10) - My fit / competitive advantage (1–10) - Capital required to start (1–10, where 10 = lowest capital) - Speed to first revenue (1–10, where 10 = fastest) ### 5. Top 3 Recommendations Deep-dive on the top 3 scoring ideas with a brief validation roadmap for each.
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Replace these placeholders with your own content:
[PROFESSIONAL_BACKGROUND]
[SKILLS]
[INDUSTRIES]
[PROBLEMS_I_VE_SOLVED]
[PASSIONS]
[BUDGET]
[HOURS_PER_WEEK]
[RISK_TOLERANCE — low / medium / high]
[REVENUE_GOAL]
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