If you were to start from scratch, $0/£0 in the bank, what industry or business would you tackle? I’m just curious if AI would feature or if this is a saturated market.
Ask HN: What business would you start in 2025?
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#2If I'm feeling conservative, I would open a self-storage facility.
If I'm feeling energetic and risky, I would evaluate the commercial viability of radioisotope batteries.
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#3If I'm feeling conservative, I would open a self-storage facility. If I'm feeling energetic and risky, I would evaluate the commercial viability of radioisotope batteries.
That’s a good shout - maybe storage business to find the radioisotope research! I keep hearing laundrettes are good conservative businesses too.
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#4Ask yourself `what does everybody want/need? (Hint it's not AI) Two (of many) possibilities; accommodation & food. One could investigate previous examples where startups began small and made history. Then I suggest you may need at least 2 of these: #1 A gimmick #2 Good luck #3 $$$$$$.
Re: Ask HN: What business would you start in 2025?
#5Ask yourself `what does everybody want/need? (Hint it's not AI) Two (of many) possibilities; accommodation & food. One could investigate previous examples where startups began small and made history. Then I suggest you may need at least 2 of these: #1 A gimmick #2 Good luck #3 $$$$$$.
I agree with your 2 of 3 suggestions…
Re: Ask HN: What business would you start in 2025?
#6If I'm feeling conservative, I would open a self-storage facility. If I'm feeling energetic and risky, I would evaluate the commercial viability of radioisotope batteries.
That’s a good shout - maybe storage business to find the radioisotope research! I keep hearing laundrettes are good conservative businesses too.
Ha, OMG, if I had a nickel everytime my partner mentions the idea of opening a laundrette. It's almost to the point of annoying... but color me intrigued:)
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#7Palliative care and interstellar journeys.
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#8Making systolic array chips (my BitGrid design) to bring provably secure Petaflops to the masses. They're handy for any algorithm that can tolerate extreme pipelining, including deep nets.
Because everything is trivial to reason about, there's nowhere for bugs, or zero day exploits, to hide.
Oh.. and we'd do an open source data diode product as well.
Re: Ask HN: What business would you start in 2025?
#9Ask yourself `what does everybody want/need? (Hint it's not AI) Two (of many) possibilities; accommodation & food. One could investigate previous examples where startups began small and made history. Then I suggest you may need at least 2 of these: #1 A gimmick #2 Good luck #3 $$$$$$.
There's plenty of people doing accommodation and food. Or anything else with high demand. The profit margins are tiny because of this, aka red ocean. More of these don't always make the world a better place; you just end up fighting with a smaller competitor, while Big Corn rakes in the profits from the economy of scale.
Re: Ask HN: What business would you start in 2025?
#10In 2025? Probably a consulting business to help companies replace their software engineers with AI.
In 2024 it would be too early, and in 2026 it would probably be too late.