MyPetrolPump: Bold move to start a business for ICE cars today. Those things need to be all but gone by 2040.
In the U.S. there is Yoshi: https://www.startyoshi.com/
Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 2
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#62I am currently participating in another accelerator in London called Antler; and I have been exposed to ideas from 70 entrepreneurs. We are presenting to investors this week. Also I am in YC Startup School too, which allows you to see what's coming up in the world, and that's awesome too. It's amazing to see that a significant percentage (~30%) of ideas they have come up with have been also thought of by others e.g.…
A lot of businesses look similar when comparing the basic idea. When you compare on execution things can get dramatically different.
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#63Vendr.com: A SaaS to keep track of your SaaS subscriptions.
and a 6.5k or 10k PER MONTH for someone to buy your SaaS subscriptions seems super expensive. I'm not too versed in the SaaS market but is this really something that you need a dedicated "SaaS expert" to manage for you?
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#64Vendr.com: A SaaS to keep track of your SaaS subscriptions. and a 6.5k or 10k PER MONTH for someone to buy your SaaS subscriptions seems super expensive. I'm not too versed in the SaaS market but is this really something that you need a dedicated "SaaS expert" to manage for you?
The same idea was built in Austin and acquired. I had the same thoughts.
http://www.siliconhillsnews.com/2018/05/02/meta-saas-acquire...
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It has been very helpful for me. I am a tech guy and they have assisted in various ways for me to find a cofounder, for example with opportunities to work on mock business cases with the other people in the program, lots of time to chat and allowed us to take our time when to decide to partner up, most people teamed up after 3-4 weeks. Speaking about other people, as I mentioned it's about 72 of us, 40% ish with tech…
Slightly off-topic, but as a non-tech guy (unless you count making websites with Bootstrap as 'tech') with significant experience in the business/marketing side of things, would attending an accelerator with the intention of finding a tech co-founder help? I can self-fund a product for a few years at least so I would bring that into the equation as well.
Yes :)
60% of the program attendees are pretty much as you described, including my co founder. They have found the tech partners here.
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Is getting fuel in India really such a hassle that people are willing to pay a premium to get the fuel delivered to them? How big is this market? I live in Europe, and have never been to India, so I don't know about the situation there. But personally I can't imagine paying for a service that would maybe save me 5 minutes per week.
I opened their website and they show refilling generators. In india electricity is unrelieable even in the best cities(including bangalore.) So every office and apartment has generators.
Ah, that makes sense! Thanks for the clarification, I should have visited their website before posting my comment.
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I have worked remote last 5 years and there is no tool that has truly solved Information asymmetry that remote workers meet every day. How usually organizations solve this is overcommunication and keeping memos from everything but that is a huge time sink and there are always those bad apples that don't keep memos.
What you hope to have in your opinion to solve the problem?
I have toyed tough about some kind text-to-speech bot that would automatically keep searchable memos from every meeting. But I am not sure is the current text-to-speech models there yet.
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#69Here 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…
Why not Arpeggio Bio or Asher Bio?
Re: Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 2
#70Here 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…
Rejuvenation Technologies is based on this paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4415018/ I hope they can get this to work! The issue is their paper uses technology covered by other players in the space who have a decade head start and significant research budgets. Maybe they'll get bought out, but my guess is delivery and CMC are hurdles they'll run up against and then have a hard time getting follow-o…
Your link is to the patent application. If you check PAIR, you’ll see that only a small subset of the claims, amended, have received NOA. I would tend to disagree about the strength of their IP portfolio based on a cursory glance at the publicly available info, but I’d be curious to hear why you think differently.