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I amazed at some people's abilities to sell anything to anyone, is it possible for me to learn the same? If yes then how? How did you learn to sell?

Solving a problem you have often leads to great startups if the market is big enough, examples are Dropbox and Airbnb. But if I am seeing an opportunity in a specific market which has the possibility of becoming a huge success even though it isn't a problem in the traditional sense and wouldn't make a ton of difference if it didn't exist (probably someone will do it soon, anyway), should I pursue it? Have you pursued such opportunities yourself and have become successful? Or do you know of any examples of big successful companies who have started that way?

Assume : 1. I have enough domain knowledge, insights and expertise to grab the opportunity well. 2. The definition of success here being a market leader or having a significant market share in that category.

Wouldn't it be cool if HN had an events page as well (curated, filtered and everything), what are your thoughts?

You shouldn't be afraid to fail is a mantra on every successful founder's lips but as much as I agree on the shouldn't part I am desperately looking for ways to suppress that continuous stream of thought that keeps negating my efforts and telling me "it's not worth it", "nobody needs it", "nobody would use this". If you had a similar experience how did you shut the door on such thoughts and sailed through?

Hi HNers, I am starting to build consumer web and mobile apps based on the ideas I have. I have found a lot of material about SaaS founders/builders but What knowledge should consumer app devs have before/while building and publishing apps on the web and mobile.