A not for profit ride sharing platform, in the spirit of ghost.org .
Self driving cars are still years ahead, besides that, humans will still be needed for other kinds of gigs for some time.
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#32A betting site offering over/under wagers on the number of people from the Trump administration who are indicted in the coming years.
If Hillary is any indication, the real money is in starting foundations.
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#34Collaboration/Project software designed with distributed teams in mind first.
I'm curious what you think the shortfalls are of all the existing tools that attempt to do this. Basecamp, Trello, Asana, Jira, to name a few.
I was a little vague in my original statement because I think there's a lot of areas of improvement across the board, but I was specifically thinking of the virtual meeting when I wrote that answer.
There's no denying that something gets lost on a Zoom/WebEx/other conference call - attendees are distracted, miscommunications happen, and people have to be assertive to get their message across. This can be overcome by a small team that is 110% driven in their goal, but it's a model that can't be adapted by all industries/sizes/cultures.
I'm still not sure what the solution to this is, but I think there will be a dramatic paradigm shift. Maybe the trigger will be VR or some disruptor we already see coming, but it may be something more approachable.
All of those tools you listed are CRUD-based. I think the space would benefit from something more reactive, where multiple people can "play" on the same screen.
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#35In the US, I will start a company that would partner with Doctors/Clinics/Hospitals where they would agree to transparent pricing for simple and routine services (like wellness checkup, simple procedure etc.). In return, the consumers will purchase a service from us (sort of insurance but I hate that word) for a much lower premium/fee per year (say something like 500 a year) where they pay the routine services out of…
Covering catastrophic care would probably end up killing this business..
There’s a doctor in my city that started his own practice with a monthly subscription fee and covering basic care.
http://journalstar.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/health/linc...
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#36Website to collectively buy satellite pictures
Sort of like what https://www.skywatch.co/ is doing?
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#37In the US, I will start a company that would partner with Doctors/Clinics/Hospitals where they would agree to transparent pricing for simple and routine services (like wellness checkup, simple procedure etc.). In return, the consumers will purchase a service from us (sort of insurance but I hate that word) for a much lower premium/fee per year (say something like 500 a year) where they pay the routine services out of…
Covering catastrophic care would probably end up killing this business.. There’s a doctor in my city that started his own practice with a monthly subscription fee and covering basic care. http://journalstar.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/health/linc...
wow, love this doctor. I wonder why this stuff is not on mainstream news more often. Yea profitability is the concern with catastrophic insurance. Perhaps Govt. can jump in for that one ? (hint: universal healthcare mixed with some capitalism ?)
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#38Something to do with transportation and logistics really. Free trade is just not going away despite populists doing their dardnest to make it more difficult and free trade runs on transporting stuff from A to B easily.
If you could innovate something minor in that field, I'm talking something that impacts maybe 5% of the shipping process, that's an absurdly big market.
However, don't do like the airlines and build your business plan on having exclusive agreements with nice and naive governments. Once that special treatment stops and they let smaller players in party's over.
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Imagine you have a fleet of vehicles and one of your drivers just had a fender-bender or seen one occur. One or both of the involved parties will call the police and notify insurance agencies. Sometimes the evidence, as deemed by you to favor your situation can get moved around or shuffled by local authorities. With my service, you'll be able to post as many pictures or videos as you like of the actual event. Our in-vehicle dash-cams will also collaborate the information you're uploading. The complete offering and system helps you secure a better insurance rate saving you millions. I just need $4.5MM to get started.
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#40Something around video verification. Convincing fake video and audio is coming soon - it isn't a major problem yet, but it will be more challenging to determine if recorded evidence can actually be relied on. Some sort of service that signs and proves the authenticity of videos I think is a an idea that was until recently probably bad, but has now became good. It'd be similar to what digicert does for websites. You c…
> Some sort of service that signs and proves the authenticity of videos.
I don't think that is even possible.
You might want to succeed with amateur efforts, but I would guess there will be a point where it is impossible to tell if a video is fake or not.