Coming up with profitable ideas is about three key words I learned from my dear friend Andrew Warner of Mixergy: Find the pain .

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If either of these situations describes you, I have a tactic that you can immediately use to generate loads of profitable ideas that people will pay for.

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Investment banks can also monitor social networks to create profitable trading ideas.

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Silicon Valley has a critical mass of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and, more importantly, a culture of turning whizzy ideas into profitable businesses.

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For decades, there was a general belief that an ideal entrepreneurial personality contained all of the tools needed for one person to translate ideas into profitable organizations.

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Now for the tough nut: ideas for a new, more profitable line of business.

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