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Re: Startup Ideas

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Post by gricardo99 »

arkades wrote: post #205

Re Smart Bathroom: Every time I hear about all-knowing toilets, I continue to feel it’s putting the cart way ahead of the horse. There’s a rule in medicine: don’t order a test whose outcome doesn’t change your decision. That’s not about cost-savings, it’s about avoiding false positives that make no sense in clinical context but raise flags that must be chased down. This sort of thing is literally promising to just co…

I'm guessing the big innovation here would be developing useful diagnostics that skew towards high specificity at the expense of lower sensitivity. Additionally, If you're collecting a bunch of datapoints much more frequently than current screening/testing regimes, You would need some smarter averaging to find trends and weed out many, if not all false positives.

I think Reliable, cheap, user friendly medical diagnostics would be a game changer, but of course the data analytics to make good use would be different than how current, one-off, medical testing is treated.

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Post by echan00 »

rygine wrote: post #287
thefahim wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also co-founder at AdQuick here. We work with sales people daily and getting their inventory to our customers. They love that we are bringing them new business. As for brand guidelines, we're in constant communication so this isn't much of an issue.

So my buddy and I have had this idea for years, but have consistently hit roadblocks for an adwords-like product with billboards. To my knowledge, outside of Lamar, every major player in the outdoor advertising space doesn't even have the technology in place to allow for a more granular pricing model (i.e. ads by the hour). And when talking with them, they were not keen on allowing such a thing to exist even when we…

This is great, I've been thinking about this idea for years (as an outsider) and I just love that you've brought the challenges to this idea front and center.

Re: Startup Ideas

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Post by elwell »

Re "Adwords for Outdoor and Transit Advertising"

I thought Vistar Media (some of the Invite Media co-founders) was doing that several years ago. It appears they pivoted, which might be a bad signal.

Re: Startup Ideas

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Post by kareemsabri »

In the case of the AI for dogs, I wonder if the person who suggested this owns a dog. If so, it seems rather bizarre. Dogs are not particularly cryptic. They're relatively easy to read if you put your phone down and pay attention to them. Humans and dogs have been communicating for thousands of years. The idea that an AI would have greater canine emotional intelligence than a human is dubious.

Re: Startup Ideas

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Post by echan00 »

While many comments ridicule the ideas in Kyle's post, I actually think it has generated great discussion and inspiration for some others.

As a serial entrepreneur, I would very much be interested in seeing more of these 'Startup Ideas' posts to sharpen my skills in identifying/weighing an opportunity through a discussion with others.

Re: Startup Ideas

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Post by leot »

Want to join a team with founded by neuroscience PhDs that has already had considerable success developing technology for intelligently interacting with dogs (and many other animals)? Send email to leo@clever.pet :)

Re: Startup Ideas

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Post by sjg007 »

elwell wrote: post #364

Re "Adwords for Outdoor and Transit Advertising" I thought Vistar Media (some of the Invite Media co-founders) was doing that several years ago. It appears they pivoted, which might be a bad signal.

My guess is the cost is too high. First Adwords is an auction. Then you have to deploy to the billboard which requires an ad of suitable format and then someone to design and put it up. Maybe electronic billboards would work? I would think adwords inside video games would be good.. or live tv events (e.g. soccer matches).

Re: Startup Ideas

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Post by joseakle »

kareemsabri wrote: post #365

In the case of the AI for dogs, I wonder if the person who suggested this owns a dog. If so, it seems rather bizarre. Dogs are not particularly cryptic. They're relatively easy to read if you put your phone down and pay attention to them. Humans and dogs have been communicating for thousands of years. The idea that an AI would have greater canine emotional intelligence than a human is dubious.

Having it plugged into a security camera would be amazing though. It could alert you when your dog is bored and wants to go out to play for example :) or if it's feeling sick and needs to go to the vet :(

Re: Startup Ideas

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Post by sjg007 »

jabretti wrote: post #92
Balgair wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe this could work as a B2G route, like the guys making the firefighting helicopters selling to CalFire. But yeah, this smells like they are trying to find a way to privatize firefighting, which is not cool (pardon the pun)

It seems to me more like they're just trying to build firefighting drones. It's not clear to me that they have any actual insight into how said drones might help, or how firefighting is done at the moment.

Those big super tankers operate at like $1m a day.. drones seem like they would be mosquitos in comparison. Maybe useful for spotting fires but I think satellite are the best plus traditional look outs. AI for sat images to spot wildfires is probably already done. It could track storms (lightning etc..). A bigger issue for wildfires is removing fuel sources which nobody does. A wet winter and spring fuels fire season.

Improving fire code is more likely to have a bigger impact. This is basically all about money though.

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