> with the worldwide black hair care market estimated at $500 billion a year Did they mean million? No way it's billion?
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Startups that debuted at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 2
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#82> with the worldwide black hair care market estimated at $500 billion a year Did they mean million? No way it's billion?
Its 9 billion in america alone. 500 million /15 million adult black women is $33 which isn't even enough to buy the hair needed for a weave and much less than the cost of a service like dreads or braids. Maybe more like 50 billion but its definitely more than 500 million
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#83The "black hair care market" is one of the curious things I've pondered about since spending some time in Africa. I think they are onto something and I think it's one of the markets where you can build a nice lead without really being noticed. I (as a Caucasian man with not exactly a lot of hair) had some very interesting discussions about hair pieces for example. I wish them the best of luck, the capitalist in me is always very happy if these "curious sounding" markets finally get attention :)
There's something very satisfying about seeing such a company in a batch with enterprise sales focused companies and an e-plane company.
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#84Did they actually do anything besides donate money to the ACLU? I didn't see anything on the ACLU's website about it, which is strange given the arrangement YC usually has with companies they "fund." Did anyone from the ACLU go to YC and participate? Is there a "demo day" presenation from the ACLU? I'm very confused.
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#85I will get down voted for this but its how I feel. I have not been excited for an app or a new website in a very long time. I think we are in a rut. None of these ideas sound very interesting or exciting to me.
Ehh they aren't super interesting but there are good businesses in there. Out of the ones I saw from both days AON3D, InnaMed Vinsight, Cowlar, MarketFox, Trade, BulkMRO, Hogaru and SuprDaily all seem to have good market niches and achievable goals.
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#86As podcasts become bigger and bigger I've been afraid of something like Breaker succeeding. Thanks to RSS/Atom it's currently a very open medium. Anyone can start putting out content and I can consume it on any device and app I choose, download episodes for on-the-go and offline listening, transfer the files easily between devices—even to "dumb" MP3 players that never had an app ecosystem—and move my subscriptions ar…
Breaker's app looks good, but I agree in that I hope they won't succeed. Their monetization strategy is to "own" podcasts and have people pay for access, if I understand correctly. Which podcasts do they have lined up for this? Will those podcasts still have ads in them? When will they start charging? Too many unanswered questions for me at this point which stops me from switching from my current podcast setup, and to advocate my friends to switch to this new "social" platform which might shut down when money runs out.
I pay for Spotify, Netflix etc. to avoid ads. Some podcasts manage to incorporate ads tastefully with respect for the listener. Others are not done that well, and produces the same horror as when you're used to Netflix and suddenly see how a show looks with frequent commercial breaks on a hotel TV.
Here's an idea: Crowdsourced ad-filtered podcast RSS streams you have to pay to access, where the profits go back to the podcasts themselves. Users mark the start and end of the ads in the podcast audio, and a podcast player skips those parts. That's something I would pay for, and hopefully would generate more money to the producers of podcasts than ads.
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#87First off, I absolutely LOVE these write-ups. That being said I chuckled at this one: >Tetra – Automatic notes for business meetings >A lot of meeting notes are taken in Evernote but Tetra takes call notes for you by automatically dialing you to merge into the call and then sending you a fully searchable record of the entire conversation. It comes in auto speech only or human edited using a fast transcription feature…
thanks! try us out https://asktetra.com and maybe we'll get to 3 :)
Your answer made me chuckle in a good way - great way to turn a potential negative into something funny and positive! I'm sure I'm not the only one checking out your site because of this.
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#88How is Vize different from Tableau?
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#89As podcasts become bigger and bigger I've been afraid of something like Breaker succeeding. Thanks to RSS/Atom it's currently a very open medium. Anyone can start putting out content and I can consume it on any device and app I choose, download episodes for on-the-go and offline listening, transfer the files easily between devices—even to "dumb" MP3 players that never had an app ecosystem—and move my subscriptions ar…
Breaker's app looks good, but I agree in that I hope they won't succeed. Their monetization strategy is to "own" podcasts and have people pay for access, if I understand correctly. Which podcasts do they have lined up for this? Will those podcasts still have ads in them? When will they start charging? Too many unanswered questions for me at this point which stops me from switching from my current podcast setup, and t…
Interesting, as from what I have seen of the app screenshots it looks far to busy and full of useless features compared to the podcast apps I use regularly or have used in the past. As a simple example, the idea that I want to have a comment section for a podcast seems laughable at best and for the most part each major panel of the app seems to be working on a 'how many buttons can we stick in here' theme that would lead me to look elsewhere.
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#90Did YC just fund a debt collection agency?...
And a hedgefund.