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Re: YC: Requests for Startups

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Post by laser »

hef19898 wrote: post #173
brettv2 wrote: post #51

> NEW ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SOFTWARE Very curious if anyone knows how to pull this off. There's so much value to be unlocked but it's just impossible to break through. I've personally met three very talented founders that tried and failed (one was accepted to YC as a mid-market ERP and successfully pivoted into an application tracking system) and failed very quickly. I'm guessing an important feature would be…

You already cannot map data automatically from one SAP instance to another, so forget auto migration. What usually happebs is, to keep the legacy system around for auditing purposes, and the live business happens in the new one. With cut-off dates per function and or department. With manually developed interfaces, and all the crap that comes with those, during the migartion period. An nothing of this has anything to…

Why is it not entering the realm of possibility for the migration system to function not at an API layer but at the levels of pixels and OCR and RPA to click through every possible interface within the ERP to export and structure the legacy data to complete a total migration? Like humans copying over the data manually?

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Post by pests »

Animats wrote: post #252
echelon wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Maybe the people behind the stablecoin have an explosive collar welded around their neck. If the price drops, it detonates. That might work. I hate crypto, but I love this idea. We should apply this to a lot of systems. Make stakeholders of anything accountable. 100% skin in the game.

China sometimes does that. Zheng_Xiaoyu, the head of China's equivalent of the Food and Drug Administration, was caught taking bribes to allow tainted drugs to be sold. He was executed in 2007. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_Xiaoyu

Wow and only 40 days from sentencing to execution

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Post by jaredmclaughlin »

Animats wrote: post #221

Most of those take a lot more time and money than YC usually offers. There are some opportunities in "New Defense Technology". Something like a low-cost replacement for the Javelin anti-tank missile based on off the shelf phone camera parts ought to be possible. Of course, once that's out there, every insurgent group will have some. "Explainable AI" is really important. "Stablecoin finance" is mostly how to make sure…

What part of a cell phone do you think we can't make?

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Post by Animats »

skrbjc wrote: post #239
Animats wrote: post #221

Most of those take a lot more time and money than YC usually offers. There are some opportunities in "New Defense Technology". Something like a low-cost replacement for the Javelin anti-tank missile based on off the shelf phone camera parts ought to be possible. Of course, once that's out there, every insurgent group will have some. "Explainable AI" is really important. "Stablecoin finance" is mostly how to make sure…

"Bring manufacturing back to America". Is it possible to build a cell phone in the US? I think we should start more basic and work our way up. For example, there isn't a real reason we can't produce all of our domestic iron and steel needs in the USA, but we end up importing a lot right now. Same with aluminum, etc. But this isn't something YC is really going to help with unless they are funding manufacturing and ind…

The US currently imports only 17% of its steel, mostly from Canada and Mexico. The US also exports steel, but imports are about 4x exports. So the US steel industry is doing OK.

60% of US steel consumption is now from recycled steel. Nucor became the largest US steel manufacturer by making that work.

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Post by pests »

fuzzfactor wrote: post #249
bagels wrote: post #187

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Something like copilot can really help with bridging the gap created by not having a full size keyboard.

I'm loving my rechargeable bluetooth keyboard & mouse which are really made to compensate for limitations of touchscreens. The keyboard I have is about the size of an ipad itself so there is no numeric keypad, and it's about as heavy as a tablet too since this one has a slanted slot in the back to slip the tablet or phone into, portrait or landscape, at a good angle for use so the combination acts not much differentl…

I love the MX Keys Mini [0]

Solid construction and a sleek feel. Pretty small form factor. But I love the multi-device support. Simple shortcut (Fn+F1, F2, or F3) to switch between devices.

Pair to my laptop, phone, and watch and use it for all my types everywhere.

[0] https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/keyboards/mx-keys-mi...

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Post by majormajor »

echelon wrote: post #234
Animats wrote: post #221

Most of those take a lot more time and money than YC usually offers. There are some opportunities in "New Defense Technology". Something like a low-cost replacement for the Javelin anti-tank missile based on off the shelf phone camera parts ought to be possible. Of course, once that's out there, every insurgent group will have some. "Explainable AI" is really important. "Stablecoin finance" is mostly how to make sure…

> Maybe the people behind the stablecoin have an explosive collar welded around their neck. If the price drops, it detonates. That might work. I hate crypto, but I love this idea. We should apply this to a lot of systems. Make stakeholders of anything accountable. 100% skin in the game.

This is a Chesterton's fence situation - we already know the problems of HEAVY, punitive liability and accountability for everything.

But I do think we're leaning way too far towards the no-accountability side currently, and need to shift a bit further the other way.

(But I don't expect THAT to come out of a VC industry where so many prominent people and parters have track records that generally include a lot of "founded unprofitable company but kept it alive long enough to have a good exit" stories... This world lives on the perception of success, not on long-term responsibility.)

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Post by ericpauley »

jbverschoor wrote: post #63

Small comment about the "Stable Coins": > $136b worth of stablecoins have been issued to date but the opportunity seems much more immense still. Only about seven million people have transacted with stablecoins to date, while more than half a billion live in countries with 30%+ inflation. U.S. banks hold $17b in customer deposits which are all up for grabs as well. And yet the major stablecoin issuers can be counted o…

Further, I don't know that I'd want to use a finance product from a backer that mixed up $17b and $17T.

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Post by sudosteph »

Difwif wrote: post #244
SirLJ wrote: post #219

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Yep, already got rejected couple of times, even before the AI boom, with my company which clearly falls under "Using Machine Learning to simulate the physical world" and "Explainable A.I." and have the potential to fall under most of the rest...

A lot of YC's material about their selection process centers around the founders instead of the idea. They openly admit that they choose a team and expect you to pivot a few times. Obviously I don't know anything about you or your ideas and I don't mean to offend but I've typically assumed that a YC rejection means they disqualified the candidate for one reason or another. Do they give feedback in their rejection? I'…

They give zero feedback, so there are way better places to apply if that's all you're looking for.

The truth is the applicants have to have a story that resonates with whoever reviews your submission. Sometimes people jive over a shared problem space, sometimes they just like people who remind them of themselves or who come from "trust networks" they respect. The latter cases are where the bias keeps seeping in.

And just because they don't pick you for an interview doesn't mean you were disqualified forever. A lot of people reapply and have success. There are just so few slots compared to applicants that most don't hear anything.

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Post by turnsout »

bruceb wrote: post #171

Eliminating middlemen in healthcare In the spirit of Jeff Bezos’ “your margin is my opportunity”, we believe it’s possible to build a highly profitable business and make the system more efficient at the same time. Didn't Amazon try this and is now shutting down part of its healthcare (pill selling) play?

They didn't go big enough: they should have become a payer/insurer. If they started with their ~1M US employees and then applied the flywheel to HC insurance, they could have essentially created a single-payer system by default.

Slightly scary to think about Amazon having a near monopoly on healthcare, but ask yourself whether our current reality is better or worse…

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