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Re: Startup idea list

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Post by Tichy » Thu, Sep 20, 2007, 5:54 AM UTC

yters wrote: post #165

Tichy wrote: post #161

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I think Cambrian House and others do that.

That's pretty cool. Do you know whether it's been effective?

I only just started using it. It is definitely an interesting community. There are other projects like it, but CambrianHouse seems the nicest from what I have remember. It seems if nobody else cares to comment on your ideas, they might even throw in their own employees to do so.

Re: Startup idea list

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Post by bsc » Thu, Sep 20, 2007, 11:35 PM UTC

Solve whether P=NP, but keep it a secret. Slowly mathematicians and computer scientists will go nuts wanting to know, so one day you hold a conference with an astronomical entry fee. Profit. Easy as pie.

Re: Startup idea list

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Post by euccastro » Sat, Sep 22, 2007, 10:01 PM UTC

mdemare wrote: post #86

euccastro wrote: post #83

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I think I read somewhere that in China doctors's salaries are, or used to be, linked to the healthy days per year of their 'customers'.

Measuring performance doesn't work, Joel says: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/oldnews/pages/July2002.html

Joel talks about software development, where the real impact of individual contributions is hard to measure. Any metric you set will be inaccurate, and thus harmful, because people will be motivated to maximize the metric, rather than real value. You just have to find people you can trust and empower, then trust them and empower them.

Now, healthy days is quite a good heuristic to evaluate a doctor's performance, don't you think? How do you think it can be gamed; i.e., what exploits can you think of?

Re: Startup idea list

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Post by roberte3 » Thu, Oct 04, 2007, 4:38 PM UTC

adsyoung wrote: post #40

Macro news. I get the news in my RSS feeds and its damn near useless. These events tell me almost nothing about the world. The signal to noise ratio is not good. I don't want to know that another 6 people in iraq have been killed in some incident, I want to know whether the situation there is getting better or worse, is it happening in a new area than before, does it involve a new group of people...big picture stuff.…

Something that is close but it is a print magazine. Is called "The Weeek" magazine. Very Very high signal to noise ratio.

They do exective summaries of the news, one page or less covering issues from all sides.

They just launched a new website www.theweekdaily.com no rss feeds that I can see. It is the one drop everything and read it magazine when the postman shows that I subscribe to. Well worth the $50 dollar subscription.