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Finding a problem to solve — Entrepreneurship for kids

The best business ideas for students start with a real problem: water bottles that keep getting mixed up, juniors who find maths hard, plants that dry up in the holidays, old books thrown away. A solution idea is a product or service that fixes that problem — name stickers, maths help, plant-watering visits, a used-book swap. Before building anything, ask: who has this problem, and would they pay to fix it?

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Problem first, idea second — “find what bothers people, then fix exactly that”

  1. A problem is something that bothers people; a solution idea is a product or service that fixes it.
  2. Look around every day: home, school, your colony, the bus stop. Small daily problems are great starting points.
  3. Match the idea to the problem exactly — a kite stall does not fix lost water bottles.

Use it for: Looking for business ideas for students, school projects and helping in your neighbourhood.

Worked example: 🔎 Is this a problem or a solution idea: “plants die in holidays”? → a problem

  1. It describes something that goes wrong for people — nothing is being sold or offered yet.
  2. So it is a problem.

Check: Try it: take one problem you wrote down and think of two different solution ideas for it ✓

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✓ Written and checked by the TalentJR team · Updated 13 Oct 2026 · How we make our lessons

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