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NOTE: 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
We're working on that right now at munchery.com
Build an objection detection system for all 100,000 objects a human can recognize.
Build a photo-realistic face generator.
Build a chatbot than can pass the turing test.
Isn'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?
Health focused YC clones are out there, there are no bio tech focused ones though.
On the Etsy for IP. I never felt much of a community with stock photo websites. I suppose this site would pull together all forms of IP under the platform.
In general, I think in the startup space, even subtle variation on the idea and positioning (given great execution) can lead to a winning startup.
Some other big problems: Prisons Retirement for not-so-rich people Government procurement Shipping (in developing countries) Customs (in developing countries) Utilities prices in Northern countries Digital democracy (removing corporate influence on elections)
The more countries that adopt this the better.
Isn'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?
I'm thinking more interactive than Khan Academy. Health focused YC clones are out there, there are no bio tech focused ones though. On the Etsy for IP. I never felt much of a community with stock photo websites. I suppose this site would pull together all forms of IP under the platform. In general, I think in the startup space, even subtle variation on the idea and positioning (given great execution) can lead to a wi…
Long story short: I don't want to start a startup that sends me to jail or regulatory hell if it becomes successful.
If anyone wants to buy coinpur.se, let me know. :)
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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…