2020 is the Best Time to Plan your 2021 Startup

Now is an ideal time to be thinking and planning for opportunities as we emerge from the shadow of COVID-19.

Emerging from that shadow will not happen universally, unfortunately. It will happen progressively and that means that the nature of problems to be solved will change gradually and new problems will emerge that we hadn’t thought about.

Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that your future is grim or even hopeless. That is a path that leads to bad outcomes.

The exercise I’m providing is valuable, even if you don’t end up moving ahead to create a business of any size.

The reason it’s valuable for you is it will get you thinking more deeply about the problems the world now has and how you might make solving those problems a business.

Countries are all managing their COVID-19 response with the resources they have available and there is a great diversity of resources depending on the country concerned.

At this time you could start to gain an understanding of likely problems based on what’s reasonably predictable. Given there are still so many unknowns, you’ll be constantly adjusting problem scenarios for the rest of 2020.

Let’s start at macro levels and drill down as far as we can.

In this table, I’ve shown an example of how you can start to analyze the problems that exist or will…