How To Start UP Solve A Problem

1. Find a Collaborator - someone whose skills complement yours. 2. Find something to correct. What's currently broken?  What do you want to exist that doesn't?  3. Get a website up to see if it is going to work. 4. Expand on what works, what your customers are using.

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