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Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
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Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#42I have a great business model but I'm looking for a team to pair up with. Please contact me if you wanted a software engineer to join your team, and bring a great business model.
I've had successful exits in the past. BryanStarbuck@gmail.com
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#43The way I see it, you can make a business from a ToDo app, so it's just a matter of sticking with it for a while and doing the bizdev magic.
If you want an idea, here's one: I'm looking at Cloud-based load testing based on JMeter (maybe more frameworks later) A few companies in the field, but not many. Plenty of room!
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#440bsidian - Would like to reach out, is there a good email?
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#45An open problem that's "sexy" but may be intractable is that of fact checking. Can you determine which articles in a corpus of news, or other documents, agree/disagree with one another? Can you cluster and sub-cluster along statements of fact being made? Can you then trace a statement of fact back to it's "original source" based on when that entry was acquired? There's a lot of opportunity in that space...
People care about facts that go their way and ignore the others.
Exactly.
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." - Henri Bergson
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#46Would you consider to build a platform using AI to connect ad pro's to gigs/ jobs? link is below. I put this landing page up to test then got busy with my other idea that's making money. Let me know. I have a bunch of emails from providers.
http://tryoldster.com/
Goal MVP / validation /
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#47Obsidian! Love your exciting post. I’m known as the ‘Ideas Man’ (name of my first book too). Ideas and creativity are my areas of expertise. I have two ideas at the mo that I’m looking for a Team to work with on. Even if you don’t like either, maybe I can help you find an idea you adore. Please contact me via my one of my websites www.ShedSimove.com or www.MotivationalSpeaker.biz xxx
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#48Look at technologies that are either at the Peak of Inflated Expectations (on the Gartner hype cycle) or in the process of plunging into the Trough of Disillusionment, and figure out what needs to happen for them to climb the Slope of Enlightenment to the Plateau of Productivity.
Alternatively, build the world's best To Do list app: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11355029
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#49Truth to be told, I think the web is mostly built out at this stage; not that there aren't any more websites to be built, but I have genuine doubts as to whether there are more websites to be built that would generate enough profit to justify venture capital investment. Would you consider ideas that would entail recruiting hardware engineers?
That that having been said, my best shots at the question as asked:
A local reviews site where you make a long play and your selling point is being serious about tackling the accuracy of reviews.
A stackoverflow competitor where you don't let the deletionists take control of the site.
A browser fork where you make a bunch of little quality-of-life improvements like killing sticky headers, and make those happen automatically by default.
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#50What non software domains are you experts in? There are lots of businesses out there with problems that are solved with spreadsheets for which a focused SaaS offering would be a 10x solution. See procore or gingr for examples (those are just off the top of my head).
But you need the domain expertise (or be willing to acquire it).
Then, you also need to be passionate about it. To avoid the long slow SaaS ramp of death ( http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/02/gail-goodman-constant-... ) you'll want to really, truly have a burning need to solve your customer's problem. At least one of you will have to have this customer empathy.