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More proof that everything comes in threes. Just like the Ramans...
Or my theory on the etymology of Ramen (La mian from Hokkien meaning hand-pulled noodles -> Ramyun in Korean being a loan word -> Ramen in Japanese, as borrowed from the Korean).
I saw a talk recently called 'everything is a remix' which said that every idea is formed in some part by something that's been done before http://everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/
how many people would be thinking at relativity when einstein did, or calculi for newton(actually two with ), or marx thougts in "the capital", a music piece by mozart or a painting by van gogh..
they created great things because their toughts were above average, and they where not losing too much time with ordinary things.. like "what will i eat?" "were are the kids" .. "i wanna a big iate" .. etc.. etc..
this kind of tought, that nothing is really original, only diminish the human nature.. and if we mix and copy.. the problem are ourselves.. we can do better, and improve with effort.. than some day.. that something really original, that no human being could ever thought can come into reality
if people wanna think different things, they must first start to look to different horizons, where nobody or almost nobody are looking at..
the innovations starts in the way you think.. you need to observe yourself thinking, and be your own harsh critical
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Or my theory on the etymology of Ramen (La mian from Hokkien meaning hand-pulled noodles -> Ramyun in Korean being a loan word -> Ramen in Japanese, as borrowed from the Korean).
Rendezvous with Ramen, Clarke's lesser known SF work that explores alien civilizations and the mythos of the flying spaghetti monster.
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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…
First, it should be noted that if you're actually in the industry you're targeting, chances are you have relationships that you can leverage. Your comment seems to imply that you're an outsider with no domain expertise who believes he has ideas to solve problems in various markets. If that's the case, you have the aforementioned domain expertise shortcoming. Second, far too many technical folks seem to believe that t…
The pint where I realy don't agree are relationships the typical start-up founder can leverage. My impression is that this kind of decisions are met in a, for me, not really understandable way at levels a founder that worked for a couple of years in company X in industry Y is unlikely to have. These kinds of caontacts don't come from domain knowledge alone.
Agree on most of the rest, although I would stress the importance of sales in a B2B environment even more. Would help to get really early on some good business guys for that. And I mean business in terms of I-did-sell-fridges-to-escimos sales people, not I-had-a-good-prof-during-my-MBA types.
The problem with so many "startup ideas" is that they are a solution to the problem, "I want to create a startup and don't have an idea." Not surprisingly, this tends to produce copycat concepts, products with no real market fit, services that target sexy but oversaturated markets, etc. There are lots and lots of problems that are either unsolved or are being solved in ways that are less efficient and cost-effective…
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…
It's about finding/extracting ideas (from domain experts) and then testing them quickly.
(Apologies for the terrible landing page)
My advice is, chill, have fun, you don't need to be an entrepreneur. I really don't understand why being an entrepreneur is so "sexy" (only to other dudes, being sexist for a moment here) these days, it's lame. P.S. I know, wrong forum to say that.
And yes, this being a hacker forum, where everyone is the creator kind of person, the percentage of possible entrepreneurs here is bound to be high.
I have a startup idea that I'm not going to execute. I currently live with a senior social worker, and my mother was a social worker. Over the years have been deeply troubled by what I've heard. I think this tool could help them, even if it's a bit creepy. Social workers in the UK have a big problem. Different teams, professions (police, medical, housing), deal with the same people, and often collect all the pieces r…
If you are relying on teleconference hardware made by other companies, I suspect that you will have those companies cloning your software for their hardware. I mean, I assume Cisco Telepresence stuff doesn't already record/transcribe meetings... If your idea starts to take off, I would bet that it will for sure in the near future. That seems like exactly the sort of functionality you would expect from that sort of ha…
Anyway, it yielded a lot of high grade speech recognition research and AI research, which companies are battling to license. If you recall Yahoo's weirdly overvalued purchase of Sumly, that was part of a deal to acquire a license for this kind of tech.
I suspect the most credible opponents to this startup would be MS bundling this kind of functionality into Outlook, or some other big company exploiting this expensive but already licensed tech.
But what you get here, is first to market, and attack on specific verticals (i.e. social services, and later related services). You can't be scared off by 'what if we have a competitor'. If you don't have a competitor, your market probably doesn't exist. That is what I'd worry about here.
The problem with so many "startup ideas" is that they are a solution to the problem, "I want to create a startup and don't have an idea." Not surprisingly, this tends to produce copycat concepts, products with no real market fit, services that target sexy but oversaturated markets, etc. There are lots and lots of problems that are either unsolved or are being solved in ways that are less efficient and cost-effective…
My advice is, chill, have fun, you don't need to be an entrepreneur. I really don't understand why being an entrepreneur is so "sexy" (only to other dudes, being sexist for a moment here) these days, it's lame. P.S. I know, wrong forum to say that.
It's the thrill of creation. You see, many people are creators. They feel a need to pour their imagination into something that lasts, possibly something that outlasts themselves. There are quite a few routes for fulfilling this desire: arts, engineering, parenting, and, you guessed it, entrepreneurship. And yes, this being a hacker forum, where everyone is the creator kind of person, the percentage of possible entrep…