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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

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Post by frik »

adventured wrote: post #324
ggg9990 wrote: post #293

Your 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…

Comeon, that scenario worked out great for Ion Storm.

While Ion Storm had an extravagant office at the top of a skyscraper, Warren Spector had great ideas and a track record of awesome games. And Ion Storm created one of the very best games ever made, Deus Ex 1, and Thiefs 3 was great too.

Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea

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Post by bluewater »

Spooky23 wrote: post #155
TheTaytay wrote: post #87

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I concur. I needed a ditch dug a couple of weeks ago, and everyone was recommending that I drive to Home Depot and pick some guys up waiting for work. There has _got_ to be a better way. Note that this felt different to me than hiring a handyman or any other skilled trade, which feels like a semi-solved problem. Sometimes I just need some extra hands, and learning the unspoken rules around how to hire guys on a stree…

Your problem isn’t hiring people, it’s hiring illegals willing to work for cheap in the Home Depot parking lot. Finding legal casual labor is tough because good workers with strong backs move up quickly, and you’re left with illegals and drunks.

Not sure what the current going rate is but doesn't a service like People Ready solve this? A while back I hired a couple guys through them to help with a move and they were a couple bucks an hour over minimum wage.

Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea

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Post by pravenj »

how about building a social platform and further learning site for serial entrepreneurs?? Serial entrepreneurs get together to test ideas, projects, etc... They learn mainly by seeing what others are doing and sharing thoughts. I go to sites to learn something, it is designed for someone just starting out. I want to talk to fellow serial entrepreneurs who are looking at various ideas, but don't know where to meet them and how. Even sharing of visions and opportunities that serials entrepreneurs see could be really insightful not only for themselves, but for anyone who are looking at what is going to happen next.

Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea

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Post by d7z »

pravenj wrote: post #543

how about building a social platform and further learning site for serial entrepreneurs?? Serial entrepreneurs get together to test ideas, projects, etc... They learn mainly by seeing what others are doing and sharing thoughts. I go to sites to learn something, it is designed for someone just starting out. I want to talk to fellow serial entrepreneurs who are looking at various ideas, but don't know where to meet the…

If you need that, check out https://DoerHub.com

Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea

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Post by jamaicahest »

reitanqild wrote: post #421
Qwertious wrote: post #190

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>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!

Easily fixable phones and laptops. My phones and laptops are small enough and lightweight enough. Making them bulletproof is too expensive. But making them easier to fix, documenting the process and authorizing repair shops would do be great. PS: I don't need to be able to hot-swap parts. PPS: pro models from Dell and HP at least are often quite easy to disassemble and fix and I think you can often source parts from…

Move to Europe https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kwaa5/the-europe...

Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea

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Post by Chris_Jay »

It sounds like you're spending too much time in focus mode and not enough time in diffuse mode. A lot of people are suggesting your team is just incapable of diffuse thinking, but I would say it's a skill like any other.

Travel, read fiction, daydream, write down ten bad ideas right after waking up... play a bit looser than you're used to, and some new connections should form.

Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea

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Post by jmnicolas »

conductr wrote: post #512
jmnicolas wrote: post #481

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Frankly I'd rather keep it to myself. I'm baffled that nobody thought about it since 10 years. But right now I'm working on a back-end code generation tool : the user would just draw a data schema and once done get a database (as a script or as a container or directly in his cloud of choice) and scaffolding for the API. The data schema is based on a specific method that makes it simple to think about your data withou…

Funny, I built this exact thing back in 2007 but couldn't market/sale it. Hope you have better luck &/ now the timing is right!

I'd be curious to know more.

Re: Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea

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Post by ziggyz »

emacsgifs wrote: post #489
reitanqild wrote: post #421

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Easily fixable phones and laptops. My phones and laptops are small enough and lightweight enough. Making them bulletproof is too expensive. But making them easier to fix, documenting the process and authorizing repair shops would do be great. PS: I don't need to be able to hot-swap parts. PPS: pro models from Dell and HP at least are often quite easy to disassemble and fix and I think you can often source parts from…

Phones not made by Apple are easy enough to fix. Just replaced the screen on my Mi Mix for about $100 plus an hour or so of my personal time.

I think iPhones are among the easiest to fix, nothing is sealed no mess no glue. The cheap replacement screen for 5,6,7 cost around 20£ and takes around 20min to replace.
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