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Re: YC: Requests for Startups

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Post by brettv2 »

> 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 an integration system that maps data from the current ERP seamlessly into the new ERP. And that assumes you can even get through the enterprise sales process to even get the company to migrate.

Re: YC: Requests for Startups

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Post by troupo »

monero-xmr wrote: post #35
dpflan wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have some ideas for this request? What’s a stablecoin development that’s needed?

With USDC and local fiat-crypto exchanges available in nearly every country, it is now possible to hire a truly global workforce and pay them with a crypto-payment vendor. If some company systematically went country by country, learned the local HR laws, partnered with the most trusted exchange, and then handled all accounting and taxes, a truly global HR and payment system could be built to make onboarding and payin…

So, you want a centralised trusted (trusted by whom?) entity to go in, do all that stuff and handle it in a centralised fashion, and work with centralised trusted (by whom?) entities to provide payment to people around the world.

Definitely needs crypto. What a novel idea.

Re: YC: Requests for Startups

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Post by goles »

diggan wrote: post #14
paganel wrote: post #9

> BRING MANUFACTURING BACK TO AMERICA That explains the admin on this forum throwing a "you're a nationalist!" at me recently, turns out I was ahead of the game on that (only that I was doing it for the wrong geo-political bloc) > NEW DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY Ooo, that certainly explains lots and lots of stuff, including the "warnings" whenever the comments don't support the correct geo-political bloc mentioned above. All…

> That explains the admin on this forum throwing a "you're a nationalist!" at me recently Are you referring to this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39315543 If so, it seems wildly unrelated to "BRING MANUFACTURING BACK TO AMERICA".

Interesting, I have never seen this chinamod list before and it's undocumented[0][1][?].

https://news.ycombinator.com/chinamod

Are there more?

[0]https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

[?]https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...

Re: YC: Requests for Startups

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Post by 5cott0 »

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…

ERP market is way too complex and oversaturated for pretty much every vertical imaginable

Re: YC: Requests for Startups

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Post by monkin »

pyb wrote: post #48
malermeister wrote: post #37

Some cool ideas here, but Garry Tan really can't be leading this organization after his death threats at elected officials.

If picking investors is a bit like a marriage, it's a bit scary. Who'd want to commit to having Garry in their cap table for the next 10 years? I say this as a potential applicant.

Everyone who values what Garry can bring to the table, so probably 99% of applicants. ;-)

Re: YC: Requests for Startups

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Post by ibash »

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…

I’ve met a few people who’ve been on the buyer side of an erp migration. It’s a multi million dollar affair that takes years.

Two approaches I can think of:

1. Target mid market or smaller and grow with customers (will be slow)

2. Take a front-door-wrapper approach

Re: YC: Requests for Startups

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Post by monero-xmr »

troupo wrote: post #53
monero-xmr wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With USDC and local fiat-crypto exchanges available in nearly every country, it is now possible to hire a truly global workforce and pay them with a crypto-payment vendor. If some company systematically went country by country, learned the local HR laws, partnered with the most trusted exchange, and then handled all accounting and taxes, a truly global HR and payment system could be built to make onboarding and payin…

So, you want a centralised trusted (trusted by whom?) entity to go in, do all that stuff and handle it in a centralised fashion, and work with centralised trusted (by whom?) entities to provide payment to people around the world. Definitely needs crypto. What a novel idea.

Your general attitude is exactly the know-nothing, anti-crypto sentiment I was advocating against. I really don’t want to get into a debate, the point of my business idea above was to solve a pain point around paying a global work force considering the costs of global wire transfers vs. instant USDC settlement.

Re: YC: Requests for Startups

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Post by fakedang »

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…

ERP is a tough space to compete in, as you're fighting against SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, etc. I would say that ERP, CRM and Enterprise payments solutions are the few spaces that firms should not compete in - in a few years, these companies will be akin to COBOL for airlines.

Re: YC: Requests for Startups

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Post by duxup »

pyb wrote: post #48
malermeister wrote: post #37

Some cool ideas here, but Garry Tan really can't be leading this organization after his death threats at elected officials.

If picking investors is a bit like a marriage, it's a bit scary. Who'd want to commit to having Garry in their cap table for the next 10 years? I say this as a potential applicant.

I don't entirely disagree generally, but I suspect the answer is "people who want money" and that might be enough for many of them to bypass any potential concerns.
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