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The (unfortunate) state of product ideation | by Arjun Bali | uWaterloo Voice | Medium

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The product ideation paradigm that resonates with young engineers and computer scientists today is quite simple:

5 min read Feb 28, 2016 -- The product ideation paradigm that resonates with young engineers and computer scientists today is quite simple: Examine the technologies available. Evaluate how those technologies could be used to build a product. Iterate on the product as new technologies are developed. I suspect that most aspiring entrepreneurs see nothing wrong with this picture. While this “connecting the dots” approach has its merits, I believe today’s world has fallen far too deep into the intellectual pleasure of combinatorics than engineering from first principles. In other words,…

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