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What do you mean? How is being apart of (creating) a solution to a problem the world faces is out of touch with reality?
because the world faces problems with package managers, app runtimes, social calendars? Real world problems are humanitarian crises, economic development, and political reform. How can you say "world’s biggest problems", yet exclude all the actual important problems?
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Great points, but don't lose the trees in the forest: This isn't about efficiency, it's about convenience. Fueling a car for 400miles in 2m is acceptable at 16% efficiency if the energy wasted is "free". That's not possible with battery technology.
It's possible if you allow for battery swapping.
Some 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…
I like much of this list - doesn't strike me as first world problems at all (I am not from the first world). Having spent the last two years building a climate action platform I have lots of climate change problems with startup worthy solutions, but the item that really struck me was the online zoo. As an animal lover, the very idea of zoos - even the most enlightened ones - is problematic. Instead, why not let the m…
The list got me thinking, why aren't there more biotech startups in Silicon Valley? Not to discount the importance of other things but I'd really love to see we put more resources into improving the human body. Maybe US regulation is the obstacle here?
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All of the above. Prove your team is credible and your idea is solid and the only thing holding you back is the money. Even if you don't have the capital to build the full-scale thing, you can still make a lot of progress on the cheap: conduct research, model your business, test components, do user testing, get LOIs from customers, line up your first few hires, and so on.
Interesting, We have done that.
You might have an opportunity to get funded by him. Don't rely on this comment on HN to hope he asks for details; go get him :)