How to get an idea for a startup

<i>The bay is necessary to get your idea in the first place. It's not because the people who live in the bay are unusually creative, it's because there are unusually large numbers of creative people in the bay.</i><p>What a load of crap. There are unusually large numbers of creative people all over the world, if you know how to recognise them.<p>In fact, creativity more often occurs from a meeting of unrelated ideas - and you're more likely to get that talking to someone who isn't doing the exact same job within the exact same mind-space within the same giant echo-chamber.

This doesn't make much sense. I have yet to meet an entrepreneur who struggles to come up with a great idea; in fact, most people have lots of good ideas. The idea is the easy part, executing is harder.

Reads like self-affirmation more than anything else.<p>Frankly, in my field the ideas that are getting funded in the Bay are mostly derivative and hardly innovative - almost everyone is trying to monetize through online advertising instead of actually selling things.

My problem with this is that everybody getting their ideas in the same place quickly turns to group-think. And that breeds derivative products and services with negligable added benefit.

People move to bay area to find similar hackers and share/get-motivated from their experiences. Ofcourse the investors too. But moving to bay area to get ideas seems wierd.

A large group of like-minded people constantly conversing is also a recipe for groupthink. Yes, the Bay area is the home of most the tech startups. And curiously they all look and feel the same, imitating each other in an innumerable number of ways.