Nicely trolled! You've sucked hundreds of man hours from their lives.
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
#412How much will you pay for an idea, if you start building it?
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#413Tough love: You've done too much reading on the subject already and will learn nothing from reading even more by indulging yourself in the comments here. And although good teams can find good ideas they have to "try and fail" at things, not just "consider and not try" things. I'm not sure how long you've been at this and which ideas you have considered and rejected and for what reasons, but if it has been longer than…
Yeah I agree that they appear to be missing a designer or product developer. More concretely, they need someone who is imaginative and can see the big picture from a user/customer perspective.
www.iancollmceachern.com
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#414Your post could easily read: "I've got a killer office space in an amazing skyscraper with catered organic sous vide lunches and a yoga room, but I don't have a business idea to put in this office space. Any ideas?" The most important aspects of a business are: 1) what you do 2) how you do it. Things like team, capital, etc. are secondary and only matter once you have those two. It's a bit like you said, "I have a fa…
Exactly. There are smart people everywhere. If you have a good idea, you can find funding. (and anyway, many businesses are cheaper to bootstrap today than ever).
If you don't have ideas, you don't have anything. I don't think you'd get a good reception saying "I want to get rich, should I become a neurosurgeon or an oncologist or a periodontist", and I don't see why this gets any better a reception.
I get that you're not necessarily asking for business ideas JUST to become rich, there are all kinds of reasons to want to run a startup. I just can't really see what would cause one to put that particular cart before any horse whatsoever.
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#415tackle IRA investments. include me if you like the idea.
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#416Earlier quoted context omitted.
Humanity is on a sure collision course with ecological disaster and potentially billions of deaths. Do something about climate change. Anything. Every new startup should be addressing the fact that we are on the Titanic and the iceberg is getting closer.
Do you have a source for the 'disaster' and 'billions'?
I would recommend starting with Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet[1] by Mark Lynas which summarizes the research of many hundreds of scientists.
1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees:_Our_Future_on_a_H...
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#417I wouldn't try to build A startup. Instead I'd focus on being a 'special forces team' for people who have a good idea and some product &/or traction but need more people with your skill sets and access to capital. You would then be essentially super hands-on investors, who could add significant value (although that really depends on you - you could also be super disruptive). Over time you'd pick up a portfolio of com…
Do exactly this, and read the book "Rework".
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#418I have tons of ideas and I'm also looking for partners.
Feel free to reach me @gmail or on rizon with the same nick.
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#419Earlier quoted context omitted.
>My simple advice is to stop looking for ideas and to start looking for problems. I concur, and add that HN could really help OP by complaining about random stuff here. Just complain about the first thing that comes to mind that's been bugging you, OP will really appreciate it!
As a pedestrian walking in SF, I am almost run over in crosswalks daily, even while knowing that drivers will run right through them. Fix that and I’d subscribe to a companion app with a blank white screen for $5/month..
Maybe, a platform where people pay to have specific problems solved by arbitrary agents.
Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
#420Just make sure you have Block or Coin in project name.