I've been accepted into a programme called Entrepreneur First [0], which is basically Love Island for co-founders. The programme is quite cool; the sum of the companies coming out of the programme are worth over 10 billion dollars.
At EF, they go against the Ycombinator advice of only seeking tostart a startup if you have an idea. You basically start pairing up with a random person in the programme and try generating ideas together.
I'm starting EF soon, and I have January and February free, where I'd like to *do something that will help me generate ideas* and prepare for the CEO role of starting a company. If you were in my situation, what would you do?
I'm mostly thinking of "infiltrating" an industry I don't know much of, but *I don't know which industry*. I don't know which macro trend I should follow. I don't really know what my passion is and if I should even follow my passion first of all. Which industry would you infiltrate?
I thought of things like
- working for free for an early stage startup where I get to know an industry and a good CEO
- working in warehouses, supermarkets, etc
- looking at some macro trends like Climate and getting involved with people who are actually on the ground working with infrastructure for this.
What would be your way of using this time to generate ideas?
[0] joinef.com