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Modular Science - Outdoor farm robot. They pivoted from lab automation to outdoor farm bots? How? 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..
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…
10 BY 10 - I don't get it. Their website says they are a contingency search firm with a value prop of having resumes filtered by people with domain knowledge before submission to clients. Also that they deliberately hit a low acceptance rate on resumes because they try to submit a diverse field of candidates. If the goal is to get the hiring manager the right person, then the best resumes should be submitted without imposing some arbitrary diversity requirement.
70 Million Jobs - love the concept. Big believer that proper recruitment practices can help rehabilitation of offenders.
ShiftDoc - marketplace concept in the healthcare space. Not sure of regulatory environment in the US but in the UK, these models will suffer due to regulatory issues over the status of the workers.
Gustav - I like this model. Offers a platform for smaller agencies to compete with the larger players. Will be interesting to see how sustainable it is given the commoditisation in certain sectors as the 3% take seems very high given pressure on margins in staffing in the US.
Modular Science - Outdoor farm robot. They pivoted from lab automation to outdoor farm bots? How? 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..
Maybe they had more than just an idea?
Colour me bitter..but my biggest weakness is that I am not 'technical' enough...but why is someone who has never tilled a field or known the rhythms of growing food in the natural world and knows the diff between dirt and soil be better qualified to make what we need?
And keep us suckling on the giant teat(or whatever) of tech? Like Monsanto does..like John Deere and dmca..we are ok trying to adapt nature to tech. Would tech people dare invent something medical without input or participation of doctors and surgeons? Look at the water..the obesity rates..the degraded soils..the poisons in the environment..that's the hubris of science and tech and the power of $. Because peasants have no value, right? Right now..I would rather be a witch riding a broomstick than a farmer or a fan of science/tech.
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Maybe they had more than just an idea?
Of course. Most likely. What else can it be.. Colour me bitter..but my biggest weakness is that I am not 'technical' enough...but why is someone who has never tilled a field or known the rhythms of growing food in the natural world and knows the diff between dirt and soil be better qualified to make what we need? And keep us suckling on the giant teat(or whatever) of tech? Like Monsanto does..like John Deere and dmca…
And don't be so bitter, it's not VC's fault that you lack technical skills.
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Maybe they had more than just an idea?
Of course. Most likely. What else can it be.. Colour me bitter..but my biggest weakness is that I am not 'technical' enough...but why is someone who has never tilled a field or known the rhythms of growing food in the natural world and knows the diff between dirt and soil be better qualified to make what we need? And keep us suckling on the giant teat(or whatever) of tech? Like Monsanto does..like John Deere and dmca…
Such robots could potentially improve soil and food quality: they could manually remove weeds, making chemicals unnecessary, and they could possibly also replace the current, heavy machinery that requires large monocultures for efficiency. Imagine strawberries picked by a robot from almost-wild plants grown in between the natural vegetation on terrain that was previously inaccessible to farming. Or growing any number of crops in a chaotic mix on current fields.
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Maybe they had more than just an idea?
Of course. Most likely. What else can it be.. Colour me bitter..but my biggest weakness is that I am not 'technical' enough...but why is someone who has never tilled a field or known the rhythms of growing food in the natural world and knows the diff between dirt and soil be better qualified to make what we need? And keep us suckling on the giant teat(or whatever) of tech? Like Monsanto does..like John Deere and dmca…
If you want to build robots, you need to have a working prototype to show that you or your team has the technical skills and the passion to build something with your own money to pull it off. That's how you get investors.
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a video of the plane taking off and flying would be a nice addon.
It's curious there's no video, since they're already crop-dusting. Even searching on the internet didn't turn up anything. BTW "piker" is slang for giving up, not the best startup connotation! (though mightn't be widespread)
I have not heard of anything here in NZ (where we don't call it cropdusting anyway), but who knows.
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…
You can't opt out while being in public. That's unreasonable.
If, for example, these gadgets, or existing security cameras started to pool their data, run (accurate) face-detection on it, and start publicising everyones' location history online, I'm pretty sure most people would object to that–even those that previously had no problem with their image being recorded by the CCTV at the gas station, or the tourist taking a photo that included them.
I find it interesting that "Honeydue" is in the list, when there are multiple free apps already in existence such as Buxfer and Splitwise that have already been available for years. Both Buxfer and Splitwise serve the exact same functions as Honeydue (splitting bills/expenses with room mates and/or partners), and both of them are free to use. Sadly, neither app has found a way to be all that profitable after all thes…