Ask HN: How can I get started to solve small business problems?

I have been reading, The best of edw519, which is a collection of top comments by our very own Edward Weissman. It contains tons of good advice (although, I don't agree with everything ). One of those that is quite epiphanic is how we are trying to build solutions to problems that no one may want and snubbing those that really require it.

Small and Midcap business run on terrible software, still manually do work which will require few mins to automate, even copy data from the software to MS Excel to get anything useful out of it and the best of it, there are hundreds of thousands of these untapped opportunities. People who don't know that solutions exist.

I would really love, if I can help to solve these problems but don't know where to begin. I have tried emailing some US firms, that I can provide 'specific' solutions to some of their tasks but it hasn't helped.

PS: I am from India