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Those who miss the boat will blame themselves not being the next Whatsapp.
- Invest in some products or teams that already exist and learn their problems and come up with a solution that is needed or partner with them.
- Reinvent a common pain point in business with service or automation, pay or observe people in industries you want to enter and their problems.
- Find a problem you have or know about maybe in private equity, computer science or bizdev that you have experienced.
- Innovate/iterate on a solution in the market that needs progression, this might even be a crowded market or a commodity that may be easier to change due to the lack of interest there. There are no new ideas under the sun but there is lost of improvement that can be made.
- Find a passion project, create a tool that targets a niche area of something you like to keep your interest i.e. movies, art, games, finance, sports etc. Spend enough time there and problems will be self-evident.
- The problem you are having right now, maybe make a solution to that, finding an idea that is marketable for a well funded team (a great problem to have).
Look 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
You might also want to look at todoist business which is also formidable: https://en.todoist.com/business
Are there any other features you would add to the list today? This was my requested mix of features: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10997561
I'm sure it must be out there already in some form, but you might want to give a shot at "uber for day laborers". It seems to me like there are opportunities on both the supply and demand side. On the supply side there its lots of room for improving gig hunting and payment assurance for laborers. Staffing agencies are of course in this space, but are pretty inefficient and catch only a small fraction of potential gig…
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> Yelp for the dark web Oh, that just got dark... no pun intended.
I'm sure it must be out there already in some form, but you might want to give a shot at "uber for day laborers". It seems to me like there are opportunities on both the supply and demand side. On the supply side there its lots of room for improving gig hunting and payment assurance for laborers. Staffing agencies are of course in this space, but are pretty inefficient and catch only a small fraction of potential gig…
Tunnels. I'm not kidding. Much cheaper tunnels would completely restructure real estate, so there are trillons of dollars at stake. Yeah you're not the perfect team for that, but you can hire the perfect team for that. Examples: - at 200kph, a 50km commute takes 15 minutes. Draw a 50km circle around San Francisco (all the empty land near Walnut Creek or in Marin County now "local" to downtown) - at 1000kph, transpora…
Think of it as a lightweight version of LinkedIn, FaceBook, and Github combined as one.
No one should have any trouble finding any sort of job or whatsoever.
This platform should be implemented in such way that any country out there should be able to offer jobs to nearly all their residents.