Startups I Want to Fund
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Startups I Want to Fund
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#2Ha. Package manager, I was thinking how we should have a single package manager that would just do it's think no matter the language, and you can just plug in new languages and it would know how to handle them (resolve dependecies etc).
I think it would be worthwhile project.
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#3How do you see these two sentences resolving into a single company that you would fund?
> A normal first check from me ranges from $50k to $250k.
> I’m very bullish on a capital-heavy, asset-full future for startups.
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#4It's hard to get excited about these potential startups. Most of these ideas are not going to make my life any better in a major way and yet the author claims he's excited by "big, scary problems."
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#5> An open app runtime - Proprietary app stores are winning too – and in the process, they are distorting markets and censoring apps.
> Could a browser be built that provides an actually better app experience and performance than native apps?
And how exactly do you get that browser past apples review process?
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#6> An open app runtime - Proprietary app stores are winning too – and in the process, they are distorting markets and censoring apps. > Could a browser be built that provides an actually better app experience and performance than native apps? And how exactly do you get that browser past apples review process?
This should not prevent you from thinking and building it.
Browser that captured my imagination recently is this guy:
It supports genuine distributed apps.
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#7Ha. Package manager, I was thinking how we should have a single package manager that would just do it's think no matter the language, and you can just plug in new languages and it would know how to handle them (resolve dependecies etc). I think it would be worthwhile project.
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#8It's hard to get excited about these potential startups. Most of these ideas are not going to make my life any better in a major way and yet the author claims he's excited by "big, scary problems."
I'm not excited by them either, but it is his money, not mine, so I don't really see that my lack of interest is relevant. If those are the topics he loves, and he wants to fund them... more power to him.
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#9Some ideas:
1. Social Silo-busters: Couple the evils of the garden walled social network approach with posts on how hard is it to make friends later in life, add a pinch of all that useless time spent in the car commuting (scraping the bottom of Spotify or Audible) and you arrive at: ad hoc voice-based social networks based on proximity, e.g. through limited range (100m) FM transmitters (one cheap way would be to use a rPi: https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/raspberry-pi-fm-transmitte...)
2. "Why can’t I manage waste pickup from an app? What might a re-invented garbage truck look like?" These are spot on! You see news of these everyday but they are very slow to appear. Make a DARPA like challenge to sort waste.
3. Sleeper Markets. Again, he's right in that there are vast markets relatively untouched by technology. Examples: The buzzer for restaurants, why can't it have a screen to display menu, or let your preorder? At a restaurant, why can't I see the most ordered 5 items and have to go through pages of menu? Similar idea for supermarkets: why not have a giant screen at the entrance showing most bought products, interesting product pairings and other data that may be useful?
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#10How do you see these two sentences resolving into a single company that you would fund? > A normal first check from me ranges from $50k to $250k. > I’m very bullish on a capital-heavy, asset-full future for startups.
He's very bullish on a capital-heavy future for startups, as long as it's someone else providing the capital? :-D