Lame list of ideas. Here's what I think the basic skeleton is for all the most revered startups:
1) Find a product which a large company is selling and give that away for free, have lower operating margins, make revenue some other way.
2) Find a product around which a large company has created a man-hour intensive management process, commoditize the product by automating the moving-people-parts out of the process, standardizing the product.
3) Give away the razor, charge for the blades: Find a product that gives away something customers typically pay for, upsell a percentage of them on some higher margin product.
1) Find a product which a large company is selling and give that away for free, have lower operating margins, make revenue some other way.
2) Find a product around which a large company has created a man-hour intensive management process, commoditize the product by automating the moving-people-parts out of the process, standardizing the product.
3) Give away the razor, charge for the blades: Find a product that gives away something customers typically pay for, upsell a percentage of them on some higher margin product.