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I found airthium [ http://www.airthium.com/ ] to be quite interesting I wonder how the efficiency compares with the liquid metal battery at Ambri http://www.ambri.com
I'm surprised about the stem cell company. Stem cell storage companies are notorious scams. I remember doing research into these when my first child was born. There's only a small subset of diseases it can actually help, and until you can actually grow organs, it's generally useless, for a lot of money. Also you can generate stem cells from adult blood cells or bone marrow anyway. What the YC company appears to offer…
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41008141
Do people like law enforcement collecting license plates and keeping them in databases indefinitely? How about random people? (Flock says it deletes data after 30 days, users have it beyond 30 days). What if their users had a database with pictures of faces, not just license plates? Facial recognition seems to be in their roadmap.
For context, it's presumably legal in California to collect licenses plates, and pictures of people's faces, if they're in public spaces.
A quote from the founder on privacy: "We don’t want into get into the business of making decisions about privacy and how this technology is used beyond the original use case."
Aren't there better ways to solve the problem(s) this product solves?
I applied to YC twice(unsuccefully) with the same idea. And I am a farmer. Just not a PhD from MIT. I would love to know they came up with that number. Really. Would love love love to know how..
They say Pyka already built a plane, so why do they only show renderings? Seems weird to waste that credibility advantage.
a video of the plane taking off and flying would be a nice addon.
I'm surprised this includes non-public stats like MRR metrics. Is that normal for a TechCrunch demo day summary?
I haven't been to a demo day in a while but it's typically been split into an "on the record" group and an "off the record" group. Startups like to share their MRR number because it can help grab the attention of potential investors.
Do the video recordings of these demos get posted online?
Yeah, you either need to be an investor or make friends with one of the founders and ask really nice
Flock seems like it could help solve some crimes, but at a huge cost - privacy. You can't opt out, unless you live nearby and register with the company. "Residents of monitored neighbourhoods can opt-out of being tracked - but visitors, or people passing through, cannot." http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41008141 Do people like law enforcement collecting license plates and keeping them in databases indefinitely? Ho…
Supposedly they're selling to HOAs; not sure how public/private those streets are. But I imagine you have a huge degree of control over that.
Feather seems very solid. If you guys want a China partner let me know. It's Ikea's fastest growing market.
Are they bringing anything new to the party?