"Build a holodeck", "Read/write cells for under $1000", "biological satellite that... deploys/builds itself", "build quantum gears"... This seems more like 25 Startup Ideas for 2042.
Start writing those grant proposals!
25 Startup Ideas for 2012
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#42Why is Stripe for ACH payments necessary? Why isn't that Stripe?
Dwolla? It kind of is already.
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#43NOTE: the following is a joke. or is it. Read to the end and decide for yourself. As a VC, I would never fund any of these. How about these twenty-five ideas for starters. 1. Combine local and real-time. (Google isn't) 2. Combine the cloud with viral marketing (Amazon isn't) 3. Disrupt green with crowd-sourcing. (Power companies aren't). 4. Curate blogging (the "blogosphere" is so wide it becomes meaningless. Get the…
#10 is tesla
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#44It's, er, interesting to see Wonga listed as something to emulate. The only context I've heard of them in before is people wishing fiery death upon them for exploiting the desperate.
I'm not a fan of the model either. But someone will do it. Looks like Douglas Merrill is already on it with $73m in funding.
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#45Good brain dump. This though: Bitcoin - "Let the IRS/FEDs be involved and stick to the law." You need to file under Things that will never happen . The U.S. will not permit a rogue currency .
Who is to say they will have a choice? I am not being cute here, but the power of any government is their monopoly on violence. That assumes, however, that the government knows whom they are up against. What if the next generation cryptocurrency was truly anonymous? Then you wouldn't be able to stop it, even if you wanted to.
perhaps. I enjoy watching the evolution of bitcoin. But I don't see the U.S. gov playing along.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
OpenPCR is totally different from "read/write cells" much less "read/write cells for under $1000". A truly useful "BioCAD" isn't an engineering problem yet: there's a very substantial amount of basic research required. Synthetic gene circuits evolve rapidly, for one: let's say you designed and "CAD-tested" your circuit, how will you keep it from mutating within a few days? Unsolved research problem. > Build a databas…
I would also love to see more startups in this area. It would be amazing to open biology to every engineer on the planet. I'm thinking of a arduino like revolution but for biology. Achieving read/write cells for under $1000 on the desktop would open up biology to an entire new set of people. I'm not a biologist, but I'm intrigued by what we can unlock in this field. OpenPCR is a good example of frugal engineering app…
Why are you convinced you need to open biology up to engineers? Is that currently not the case?
The fact is you really can't do much with a PCR machine. Sure, you can identify your friends boogers. But it only reduces one tiny aspect of overall cost. Add a centrifuge, a flow cytometer, a gel box, some incubators, and then maybe you have a functional 'garage' lab.
But again, you don't achieve much by having immediate in vitro sequencing. Not sure what the point is.
The real barrier then is literally funding and the capacity to do the research. And that's exactly what my startup is doing.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
OpenPCR is totally different from "read/write cells" much less "read/write cells for under $1000". A truly useful "BioCAD" isn't an engineering problem yet: there's a very substantial amount of basic research required. Synthetic gene circuits evolve rapidly, for one: let's say you designed and "CAD-tested" your circuit, how will you keep it from mutating within a few days? Unsolved research problem. > Build a databas…
I would also love to see more startups in this area. It would be amazing to open biology to every engineer on the planet. I'm thinking of a arduino like revolution but for biology. Achieving read/write cells for under $1000 on the desktop would open up biology to an entire new set of people. I'm not a biologist, but I'm intrigued by what we can unlock in this field. OpenPCR is a good example of frugal engineering app…
Re-reading your post, I just realized: did you mean "synthesizer" where you wrote "sequencer"?
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#48Biological this, biological that.
How about ideas for those of us who aren't scientists?
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#49One I'm looking at - Google Analytics for print/billboard ads.
Adwords/Analytics is great, because you can see exactly how much money you're spending, and exactly how many sales/conversions/downloads you're getting for that money.
In the print world, this becomes much harder to measure. I'm looking at easy ways to make that happen
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#50Isn't 2 pretty much Khan Academy ?
There are several Health focused YC-clones: Rockhealth, Healthbox, Blueprint, etc.
Also it's not clear what "Etsy for IP" means, there are already stock photo libraries, sites for selling code snippets, sites for selling brandnames, etc. Is there a particular type of IP you're thinking about?