If either of these situations describes you, I have a tactic that you can immediately use to generate loads of profitableideas that people will pay for.
Silicon Valley has a critical mass of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and, more importantly, a culture of turning whizzy ideas into profitable businesses.
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.
Students were asked how China could make its state enterprises profitable again - in what some speculated was less a test of Marxist political correctness and more a plea for useful ideas.