Anveshan · Session 01 · Entrepreneurship
Finding problems worth solving
Every business starts with a problem someone cares about.
WithSumit Sinhal
Founder, Kins Health
WhenMonday, 5 October 2026
Classes XI and XII
ForScience, Commerce
and Humanities
Your Anveshan journey
You are here.
Today’s mission
Spotproblems all around you
Judgethem with five simple questions
Shortlistthe ones worth chasing
Rule number one
Every business starts with a problem.
Not an idea. Not an app. Not a logo.
A problem that real people care about.
Science · Commerce · Humanities
Every stream already sees problems.
Just differently.
Science
“Why does this happen? Can we measure it?”
Spots what breaks, what wastes energy, what makes people unwell.
Commerce
“Who pays? What does it cost? Who loses money?”
Spots waste, delays, and customers nobody is serving.
Humanities
“How do people feel? Why do they act this way?”
Spots frustration, exclusion, and what people need but never say.
The best problem-solvers use all three. So today, every team is mixed.
Warm-up quiz · vote with 1, 2 or 3 fingers
What problem started it?
Notice the pattern
They felt the problem first.
Stranded by a taxi driver who wanted more money
CommerceRent they could not pay
DesignImportant files left behind on a USB drive
TechnologyLearning English cost too much for most people
LanguagesSmall cuts, every day, in the kitchen
HealthEvery field. Same move. They noticed a problem.
A founder’s story
Meet Sumit Sinhal
Founder, Kins Health
The problem I first chased
What went wrong
What changed my mind
Your turn to ask: how do you decide which problem is worth building a business around?
Game time · mixed teams of five
Problem hunt.
Science, commerce and humanities in every team. One paper, one pen. How many everyday frustrations can you find before time runs out?
Problem hunt · 4 minutes
Hunt in four places.
School
Queues, labs, timetables, exam stress, lost things, the canteen.
Home and health
Medicines, food, chores, power cuts, grandparents, things that break.
The commute
Autos, traffic, rain, fares, waiting, getting there late.
Siliguri markets
Parking, prices, crowds, paying, finding what you need.
Start with“It’s annoying when…”
No solutionsProblems only, for now.
1 pointfor every real problem.
2 pointsif no other team has it.
Quick fire · thumbs up or thumbs down
Real problem, or just noise?
The framework
Five questions that separate problems from noise.
1
How painful?
A pebble in your shoe, or a broken leg?
2
How often?
Once a year, or every single day?
3
How many people?
Just you, or the whole school, the whole city?
4
What do they do today?
Is today’s fix slow, costly or annoying?
5
Would they pay?
Would they give money or time to make it go away?
Score each from 1 (low) to 5 (high), out of 25. Science measures the pain, commerce prices it, humanities understands it.
Score it live · example scores
Canteen queue vs. a blue school bus
Question
Canteen queue eats the break
Wish the bus were blue
How painful?
How often?
How many people?
Today’s fix is bad?
Would they pay?
Total
20 / 25
6 / 25
15 or more: worth chasing. · Under 10: let it go.
Team activity · 8 minutes
Your turn: find your best problem.
From your hunt list, circle the three problems your team cares about most.
Give each problem 1 to 5 on all five questions. Add them up out of 25.
Highest score wins. A tie? Pick the one more people would pay for.
Your winning problem and its score, in 20 seconds.
Live board
The room’s top problems
No problems yet. As teams share, add their winning problem and score here.
Lock it in · vote with 1, 2 or 3 fingers
Five questions before you go.
Journals out · or any notebook
Write it down before it fades.
- Page 2Idea bank: your top three problems, and who has them
- Page 8Notes 01: Sumit’s story in three lines
- Circle itThe one problem you would chase, and its score
- This weekAsk one person who has that problem: what do you do about it today?
What’s next · NEXIS team
Take your problem into the field.
Your field mission: at every visit, ask what problem this business solves, and which problems it still has.
Next session · Tue 13 Oct
Generating New Business Ideas
with Aman Choudhary
Bring your top problem. We will turn it into ideas.
Don’t fall in love
with your idea.
Fall in love with the problem.
Thank you, Sumit · See you on the first industry visit, 12 October