I've been interested in starting up something for a couple of years. All the ideas I get feel very small or simple. I feel it won't make it big and lose interest in the idea. I've been trying hard to find good ideas but that's proving difficult. How do I find ideas for one? Should I even look for one? My main reason to starting up is for the excitement and potential fame, popularity, riches. I know the odds are pretty low, but I'm just 23 and I feel I'm in a comfortable position to take the risk.<p>One other thing people adivse is to join an early startup or a mid sized company. However, I feel the upside won't be high enough unless I'm one of the cofounders. A job at a good CS firm like Google, FB might be better off in terms of learning, money. May be it's just my misconception.<p>Please advise.
<i>Please advise.</i><p>I'd advice you to quit asking people to do your homework for you, spend some time using the HN search feature, Google, etc., and come back with specific questions.<p>See: <a href="http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html</a><p>Seriously, everything you need is here in the HN archives, in the startupschool lessons, etc., but have you done any research of your own yet? If not, why not?<p>Take this: * I've been trying hard to find good ideas but that's proving difficult. How do I find ideas for one?*<p>This issue has been discussed ad nauseam here on HN. Use the search bar for crying out loud.<p>Or go to <a href="https://www.startupschool.org/library" rel="nofollow">https://www.startupschool.org/library</a> and/or <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html</a> and start reading.