Looking for a research question for my master thesis in the area of entrepreneurship

Matze

Dear Entrepreneurs

I am planing to become self-employed on a midterm range. Over the last couple of months I have put togehter more then 100+ business ideas and talked to several people from various fields. 

But I really think that no more then 5 ideas do really have a potential - ideas come quickly but its the execution that brings the success. I tried to testify my ideas against scalability, sustainability, profitability and automatability. 

Now I am looking for a research question and topic for my master thesis (business consulting) in the area of entrepreneurship and startup science. Some research questions I was thinking of: 

• Where in the market shell we introducte our product/service (and explain why)?
• How to build a tech-driven startup with a non-technical leadership?
  
• How to quantify the uncertainty of introducing a new product/service to the market? 
  
• How to quantify the probability of success of a new product?
  
• How to test market demand for a product that does not yet exist without having a prototyp/MVP?
  
• How to mitigate persistent uncertainty factors in NPD that may prove to be highly ruinous for an idea?
  
• How to apply Eric Ries' "validated learning" pattern without having a product or even customers? 
  

As you can see I am looking for a way to catch two birds with one stone. That means I would like to do some research on one of my ideas, to develop them further. But I am really having a hard time to come up with a concrete topic and just don't know where to start. 

What do you think about the research questions listed on top?

What would be an interessting research-area touching the following fields and keywords? 

• Shared economy
• Startup Science
• Growth Hacking
  
• Lean Product Development
  
• New Product Development
• Marketing
• Rapid Prototyping
• Low- / High-Fidelity Prototyping
  
• Entrepreneurship
• Lean Startup
• Lean Market Validation
• Lean Thinking
• Validated Learning
• Minimum Viable Product / Minimum Viable Habig Engine
  
• Outcome-driven Innovation

Thanks in advance! 

Best, Matthias 

Ryan O'Bleness

The Share Economy is hot right now, and should only continue to pick up steam in the foreseeable future. I think that would be an interesting topic to delve into. I would also be interested in MVPs or Growth Hacking, but any of the topics you listed are of interest to entrepreneurs and small business owners. 

melodyspencer

Ryan O'Bleness said:

The Share Economy is hot right now, and should only continue to pick up steam in the foreseeable future. I think that would be an interesting topic to delve into. I would also be interested in MVPs or Growth Hacking, but any of the topics you listed are of interest to entrepreneurs and small business owners. 

I also agree with you. That's a trending topic. 

simonsilverport

nice