How is Globe going to prevent hourly escort rentals?
Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 2
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of businesses look similar when comparing the basic idea. When you compare on execution things can get dramatically different.
As a tech founder in B2B I would go even further and say the idea nor technical implementation matters much, what's important is how well you can build relationships with your prospects, how you can sell it, and hire people to help you scale it up
I wouldn't go that far. All those things are important. I'm a tech founder too, but for some more credible citations, I'll defer to Sam Altman[1] and PG[2].
[1] https://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec01/
> It's become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter. ... But the pendulum has swung way out of whack. A bad idea is still bad and the pivot-happy world we're in today feels suboptimal. Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere. There are exceptions, of course, but most great companies start with a great idea, not a pivot.
[2] e.g. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html. Controversial, but I'm a believer.
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#103Fresh out of Y Combinator, Tandem lands millions from Andreessen Horowitz https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/20/tandem/ "is raising a $7.5 million seed financing at a valuation north of $30 million" "We’re told several top venture capital firms were vying for a stake in Tandem. One firm even gifted the founders a tandem bike, sources tell TechCrunch, resorting to amusing measures to sway the Tandem team. But it was a16z…
I hope not to sound like a jerk or get downvoted for this, but what's the point of quoting the article without adding at least an opinion or thought?
In the case of an article that lists 82 startups, their comment is essentially saying "Here's a startup I think is notable". Hence their opinion.
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#104What always strikes me about these lists is that if I had these ideas (and I often do), I'd discard them out of hand as non-viable. Yet people behind these startups don't mind staking years of their life on what is essentially a lottery with rather poor odds, and find passion in doing things which, at best, would make me yawn. Maybe I'm just old, I don't know.
I kinda agree. I just don't see the value in 90% of those ideas even if they are well executed. Maybe I'm getting old too but it seems most of these propositions are based on the premise of making something attractive and getting funding from VCs wanting to diversify their investments and play the lottery. The lowest hanging fruit in tech has already been taken years ago and the human needs haven't changed that much.…
I vehemently disagree with you. There are million dollar checks laying on the pavement, you just have to spend a bit of time outside of software engineering to see it. So much time is waiting executing rote processes by hand across industries, and billions of dollars are spent with the likes of Accenture to build custom applications.
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#105Here are the ideas that I think have the most potential... talar: Huge potential here. Cars are on their way out, and scheduled grocery delivery can replace it. spotless materials: Coatings can make a huge difference in the way we interact with materials... in fact, for the most part, that's all we interact with. better coatings make things better. encellin: I believe that interacting with our bodies on a more finely…
Imagine being asked to deploy highly complex firmware with non obvious failure cases without any software updates. I sure hope that the models with Tensil are not fixed!
Unfortunately a big problem with ASICs is economics/operational issues for the startup cost making a chip. This isn't a traditional engineering problem to solve. I'd be concerned if the founding team doesn't have someone good at that stuff and solving hard technical problems with many years of ASIC experience. Hardware is hard!
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#106How is Globe going to prevent hourly escort rentals?
do you need to? I see another business opportunity
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#107> GitStart allows you to send small coding tasks (from JIRA, etc.) to its global network of developers. They charge a fee for each task — but if the developer does a good enough job that you’d like to hire them more permanently, GitStart also makes a commission. When was this company created? I thought the Git trademark policy disallows anybody new from naming things “Git”-thing.
I was even going to say it was a missed opportunity for gittyup but maybe giddyup is better for TM avoidance!
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel there is also a room for mobile superchargers. They can come to your house and fully charge your car in half an hour, rather than waiting for hours on home voltage.
I considered this, but nothing beats hydrocarbon energy density. It seems more practical to swap out pre-charged cells like some electric scooter companies do, which would require an interchangeable format that might be obsoleted by newer tech every 5 years. Once we have supercapacitors and room temperature superconductors, a lot of these problems go away, though. Exciting times!
Swapping would be faster. I recollect that Tesla had such a system. Not sure where it went
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#110Here are the ideas that I think have the most potential... talar: Huge potential here. Cars are on their way out, and scheduled grocery delivery can replace it. spotless materials: Coatings can make a huge difference in the way we interact with materials... in fact, for the most part, that's all we interact with. better coatings make things better. encellin: I believe that interacting with our bodies on a more finely…
>talar: Huge potential here. Cars are on their way out, and scheduled grocery delivery can replace it.
A ton of these already exist. Blue apron, Home Chef, Hello Fresh, Amazon (although I believe amazon is currently pickup only). Does talar do anything different than the already established companies?
>spotless materials: Coatings can make a huge difference in the way we interact with materials... in fact, for the most part, that's all we interact with. better coatings make things better.
Again, there are a bunch of established companies making spray on and dip on coatings for clothing, fabric, tools, and other miscellaneous items that does essentially the same thing. Is there anything new here that the others don't do?