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here is my simple advice which should save you a lot of time and money.
your journey should start identifying whether or not you have a problem worth solving. Most of your issues, assumptions, solution you put forward is irrelevant until you have done this. Don't get me wrong, your idea is sound and it often starts from a vision or an intuition that your idea is great.
You now need to take a step back and do a coue of things:
- what problems does cabsharing solve? Share the cost? Meet new people? Etc.
- how would you rate the pain i.e. have people been dying for someone to co.e up with such a concept or is it simply a nice to have
You have to come up with a porblem statement, good understanding of the problem and start testing this first. Get out there and interview people. Measure. Learn.
If you have not heard of it yet just follow the lean startup approach (i recommend ash maurya's blog that will give you plenty to start with - his book running lean is also a great and practical resource).
If you need help structuring it all or formalising your initial lean canvas I am happy to help. The most important thing is to test and validate key assumptions before you embark on something bigger. Many ways nowadays to do this, give me a shout in less than am hour we can get you up and running.
Hope that helps, good luck the exciting part is just starting now: making it happen!
You have done a very good job of identifying the challenges, which is a promising sign.
There is 1 very specific area I can help you with – precisely because you are a ride sharing app. But I'd like to discuss it privately. Please send me a message. This won't be a paid consultation, and it's definitely worth your time.
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