I was thinking of starting a company that sells pet supplies to retail customers by way of a website. Think I'll be able to secure VC funding?
If you've got a really good domain, yes.
Flip creator gets into the grilled cheese business, Sequoia invests
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Re: Flip creator gets into the grilled cheese business, Sequoia invests
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
"fast food isn't fast enough" is not a complaint I've ever made Really? I just went down to Cheeseboard Pizza to get a slice, but the line was too long, so I went somewhere else. If I could have ordered and paid while I walked and then just picked it up when I got there, that would have been sweet. Mind you, I'm pretty impatient.
Just get their phone number and call ahead for takeout — it's pretty common here in Seattle even for places that don't deliver or even have a counter to order at. There are some terrific sit-down restaurants that have tons of excess kitchen capacity.
Heh, that'd never work at Cheeseboard. They make great pizza, actually, but:
a) They only make one type of pizza per day,
b) You stand in a line which always goes out the door in order to order it
c) Same line for eat-in or take-away.
They have a constant stream of pizzas coming out of the ovens and getting cut up. When you're standing in line all you're waiting for is for the guy at the front to find out how many slices everyone wants and to take their money.
Re: Flip creator gets into the grilled cheese business, Sequoia invests
#53I was thinking of starting a company that sells pet supplies to retail customers by way of a website. Think I'll be able to secure VC funding?
Only if it involves QR codes, NFC technology, and group buying.
Re: Flip creator gets into the grilled cheese business, Sequoia invests
#54It would be even cooler if a quadcopter delivered your grilled cheese sandwich within minutes no matter where you were. Why doesn't that exist yet?
This could also be an awesome way to disrupt the courier business in cities.
e.g. sender logs a job online (& provides payment details), sender prints a barcode sticker, sender drops off package with the building doorman/concierge and/or walks to designated quadcopter landing zone adjacent building, outgoing package scanned and loaded onto quad-copter, quad-copter delivers package to recipient's landing zone, quad-copter/system sends notification to recipient to advise that package has been delivered, recipient goes to quad-copter landing zone to collect package, recipient scans barcode or provides electronic signature to acknowledge receipt.
Terms & Conditions: Anyone who implements this idea (or minor variation) must give hook and I a $1 royalty each for every job logged ;)
Re: Flip creator gets into the grilled cheese business, Sequoia invests
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know... that sounds doable. Quadcopter are very fast and can go very far before they lose power. And a single sandwich is not a very heavy load. If you are outdoors and can give it your GPS coordinates, a single restaurant/quadcopter port, could serve a very large area.
Given advances in ballistics I think a grilled cheese cannon would work just as well, and be cheaper.
Advances? In ballistics? Who are you Leonardo Da Vinci?
Re: Flip creator gets into the grilled cheese business, Sequoia invests
#56there is no tech bubble.
Re: Flip creator gets into the grilled cheese business, Sequoia invests
#57It would be even cooler if a quadcopter delivered your grilled cheese sandwich within minutes no matter where you were. Why doesn't that exist yet?
This is an interesting idea and some of the other commenters did a good job of fleshing it out a little, but IIRC it is illegal to operate a UAV in the US unless you can take manual control at any time and so long as the UAV is always within the "operator's" eyesight.
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#59I don't mean to be dense... but why would I want to order food on my phone? I'm reminded of Paul Graham's office hours video on TC. He asked one of the founders if his product solved the biggest problem in his life. I don't think there's a single person on Earth whose biggest problem in life is, "I have to tell the cashier what I want to eat before I can get fast food."
I have the mobile number of the nice waiter I know in a café down the road for me, when I want to order baguette(s) I give him a call and he kindly starts making them so that when I turn up I pay and collect, rather than waiting 5-10 minutes there.
I would LOVE to see a Starbucks mobile app allowing me to do the same thing, so when I get to the store I could pick up my drink and walk out. In fact it would amaze me if Starbucks don't offer this in the next 18 months, given their recent steps into mobile applications (though, annoyingly for me, they test everything in the US first, so more like 3+ years until it will come to the UK).
Re: Flip creator gets into the grilled cheese business, Sequoia invests
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just get their phone number and call ahead for takeout — it's pretty common here in Seattle even for places that don't deliver or even have a counter to order at. There are some terrific sit-down restaurants that have tons of excess kitchen capacity.
Heh, that'd never work at Cheeseboard. They make great pizza, actually, but: a) They only make one type of pizza per day, b) You stand in a line which always goes out the door in order to order it c) Same line for eat-in or take-away. They have a constant stream of pizzas coming out of the ovens and getting cut up. When you're standing in line all you're waiting for is for the guy at the front to find out how many sl…
When they did their big remodel, they really should have added space for a second cashier.