This is a three-year-old blog post about a three-year-old HN comment about a different three-year-old blog post. Just sayin'.
More proof that everything comes in threes. Just like the Ramans...
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Startup Ideas Every Nerd Has (That Never Work)
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have come up with a lot of ideas to solve business problems, but I am reluctant to implement them for the concern that selling to such businesses would be a far more difficult problem than simply creating something that works better than what they are currently using. Business often make stupid decisions based on relationships with sells people or brand recognition more than merit of the solution. Of course, this p…
In my experience, you have the difficulty backward. It's just fear of the unknown that keeps too many technical people from attempting it. If your product has a demonstrable return on investment, then it is far easier to sell to businesses. Because businesses actually make decisions based on ROI, and consumers mostly don't. Remember that to make a fair comparison, you need to do it per dollar, not per sale. Even if i…
This is only true if there is a cost-effective way to reach the businesses in question. Sometimes there is, sometimes it's less clear.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Spoonrocket is pretty unique. You'd have to go to the 3rd world like India to get similar levels of service. Spoonrocket's cars have builtin heaters that keep food warm, only 2 menu items a day, and really quick delivery. If they actually expanded nationwide they'd kill burger/pizza joints, or at least force them to innovate.
Neat implementation details and 'disruption' aren't what make a startup unique / important. For example: 'InstaToiletPaper is doing really unique things like drone delivery of toilet paper and a huge selection! If these guys succeed, they'd be out disrupting the $20B toilet paper market, or at least forcing the to innovate.
By that standard few startups are 'important'. Twitter (sms on web), Facebook (another myspace), Microsoft (another OS).
InstaToiletPaper is a pretty good startup if existed. When you run out of toilet paper you really want it quick. A drone could fly through a small window and it get it to you. You'd pay $10 for a single roll.
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#44This is a three-year-old blog post about a three-year-old HN comment about a different three-year-old blog post. Just sayin'.
That expression peaked a few years ago: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=just%20sayin&cmpt=q
Google Trends is based on searches, so it implies it actually started up three years ago, and a bunch of n00bs had to find out what it means. It grew into simple and powerful everyday expression that everybody knows a meaning of.
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#45This is a three-year-old blog post about a three-year-old HN comment about a different three-year-old blog post. Just sayin'.
And it's about every idea being old! So fitting!
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Neat implementation details and 'disruption' aren't what make a startup unique / important. For example: 'InstaToiletPaper is doing really unique things like drone delivery of toilet paper and a huge selection! If these guys succeed, they'd be out disrupting the $20B toilet paper market, or at least forcing the to innovate.
By that standard few startups are 'important'. Twitter (sms on web), Facebook (another myspace), Microsoft (another OS). InstaToiletPaper is a pretty good startup if existed. When you run out of toilet paper you really want it quick. A drone could fly through a small window and it get it to you. You'd pay $10 for a single roll.
Pivot into the lucrative "out of condoms" market using the same hardware and business model to grow the startup.
Presumably any drone that can fit thru a bathroom window can fly thru a bigger bedroom window.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Neat implementation details and 'disruption' aren't what make a startup unique / important. For example: 'InstaToiletPaper is doing really unique things like drone delivery of toilet paper and a huge selection! If these guys succeed, they'd be out disrupting the $20B toilet paper market, or at least forcing the to innovate.
By that standard few startups are 'important'. Twitter (sms on web), Facebook (another myspace), Microsoft (another OS). InstaToiletPaper is a pretty good startup if existed. When you run out of toilet paper you really want it quick. A drone could fly through a small window and it get it to you. You'd pay $10 for a single roll.
... You must be kidding me. Where have we gone as a civilization ;_; HN STOP, JUST STOP, YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR
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#48Derek Siver's observation back in 2005 that ideas are a modifier on execution is a slightly better recounting of this point: http://sivers.org/multiply People can bitch and kvetch about elevator-pitch/vision level descriptions of products, but such analyses are always shallow, and particularly for interesting products almost always miss the point. Always look to the execution. (on the flip side, the flaws of poorly e…
Does YC have a collection if post mortems for their failed startups? I would find that very interesting.
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#49I stopped looking for ideas, and focused on solving problems. There is a difference. Ideas come with a lot of fluff. Meaning that under the right conditions they might work. Solving problems focuses on talking to people who have problems, and figuring out a way to solve it. I now spend at least an hour every week talking to people who have problems I want to solve: people who can pay. (:
fuck you and your happy face.
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#50How is that even remotely interesting? wtf.