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The quickest way to create a billion dollar company is to take basic human social needs and figure out how to mediate them online.

Look at the first wave of the Web/mobile/cloud startups that have done just that: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Match.com, Pandora, Zynga, WordPress, LinkedIn.

It’s your turn.

Hard-Wired

This week I’m in New York teaching a 5-day version of my Lean LaunchPad class at Columbia University. While the class teaches a process to search and validate a business model, it does not offer any hints on how to create a killer startup idea. So after teaching several hundred teams in the last few years, one of my students finally asked this question—“So how do we come up with an idea for the next billion dollar company?”

To read the full, original article click on this link: How to Build a Billion-Dollar Startup | Xconomy