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Isn't there a problem with the headline? Maybe they're not that hard to find after all. If not then there is one with my english, which would still mean that finding a problem is not too hard :-).

Anyways I am not sure if it is really easier to solve a problem than to find one. I would say the hardest part would be defining a problem in way that it is approachable. You can come up with a lot of very general problems, the hard part is narrowing it down.

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Yes, there is a problem with the headline. The latter sentence should read, "Finding problems is hard."

However, convention on HN suggests that it's appropriate to copy headlines verbatim from the linked article. It's unclear what the appropriate behavior is.

Unless we're talking about the particular class of problems which involve finding things. As in:

"Sorting problems are easy, finding problems are hard."

And of course, finding problems is a finding problem. No wonder it's hard!

Hm... I hadn't considered that. Touché.

I think in the context of the video clip they are more referring to product/market fit. Many startups fail because they either don't recognize the real problem, they build the wrong product to address a problem, or they burn through their cash before they find the point where their solution intersects with the market problem. I believe this is also why domain experience is important to one or more startup founders; the company can build a solution to an understood problem rather than a solution looking for a problem.

And don't blame me for the headline; I just took it from Venturebeat :-)

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