Interview question help: If you were to start a startup today, what would it be?

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A potato chip company

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Similar to record labels for music, I’d license content and brand content creators/influencers

Robinhood competitor for X (LatAm, UK, EU), B2B API / accounting software for fund admins / auditors that need to pull trades from crypto exchanges in a consistent format, B2C app gamifying savings, particularly in an market with a weak local currency, a B2B platform to allow vendors to implement client side encrypted storage & permissioning without any extra effort, a P2P sports betting market with no central broker-dealer, tinder for cats.

Weapons manufacturer overseas.

Why would anyone give you a legit answer? A good startup idea is obviously not going to be shared, regardless of whether it’s purely as an interview question.

I disagree. The idea isn't worth anything without execution. There are very few businesses that literally depend on a trade secret to this degree. I guess if your idea is an HFT firm (and you already have a strategy that you know works), or a vaccine (which you've somehow independently invented & verified), then yeah, keep it a secret. Otherwise, it's native to think explaining the first principles of the idea somehow costs you something.

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