If you're in NYC send me an email at kevinlordbarry@gmail.com. I have an idea kicking around I'll be happy to share with you.
Help Me HN: Can't think of new ideas I am interested on working on
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#12maybe you need to take a fishing trip or a place you odd to be but never been. Prefobly with human
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#13What motivated you the last go around? Was it $$$ or the idea?
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#14Here's an idea. You'll quickly find many challenges/problems with it, but if you can fix those (that's called innovation) you'll have something. Many immigrants to the US go back to their home country for surgery and similar health services. It's cheaper and often better. Why can't non-first-generation-immigrants take advantage of the same services easily? Ie. why can't you easily go to countryX and cheaply get your…
AirBNB for offshore medical services. That could be a billion-dollar business in fact.
Re: Help Me HN: Can't think of new ideas I am interested on working on
#15Enroll at one of these: http://singularityu.org/programs/executive-programs/
Or get ideas from those: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
Or come to Berlin for a coffee and some inspirations.
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#16"I don't have any obvious or immediate itch to personally scratch"
Put yourself into the shoes of someone else and fix their biggest problem. Can't think of one?
Go to a non-nerd party and ask around, "What's your biggest problem?".
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#17If you're interested in open source Bitcoin projects, shoot me an email. There's plenty of world-changing high-quality FOSS components to create!
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#18I'm sure you know this already, but I think the best ideas and the ones that you will be strongly motivated to work on are those that solve a problem for a lot of people, but principally for you. Something in your business life or elsewhere that you have found frustrating or lacking, but that has no good tech solution. But I'm sure I read it elsewhere and it made sense that it's easier to find solutions than problems. Don't look for a solution, look for a problem, a tough one, then cast about for ways to solve it.
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#19Here's an idea. You'll quickly find many challenges/problems with it, but if you can fix those (that's called innovation) you'll have something. Many immigrants to the US go back to their home country for surgery and similar health services. It's cheaper and often better. Why can't non-first-generation-immigrants take advantage of the same services easily? Ie. why can't you easily go to countryX and cheaply get your…
AirBNB for offshore medical services. That could be a billion-dollar business in fact.
Once people find a doctor they like (and a foreign hospital), they stick with them, and would be going behind your back to get follow-up/repeat treatment. Not to mention all the redtape
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#20Funding seed-stage startups is broken. The ratio of accredited investors to startup is so skewed that most startups don't stand a chance of getting funding. As the LinkedIn IPO shows, average people are extremely excited about getting involved, but they are locked out in the US due to strong regulatory laws. Disruptive startups can't get funding and there are many people who would like to fund them with small investm…
am I right in saying that this is really kickstarter with equity in place of product ?
I've always thought a Kickstarter for startups / websites would be such a brilliant idea, but not feasible. This guys idea sounds fantastic, but I think the whole registering in Malta wouldn't be too appealing.