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20,000 Startup Ideas

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Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by petra »

Geee wrote: post #54

These are not startup ideas, but activities that people do. A startup-idea might be to find a way to make these activities easier. To make this list more useful, there should be two additional datapoints: 1. How many people does the activity impact 2. How much does the activity impact each person. The product of these would be the total impact. Sorting by the amount of impact would give the most valuable areas for in…

What's missing is a resource that would let you understand each activity, it's tools, processes, problems, etc.

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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petra wrote: post #61
Geee wrote: post #54

These are not startup ideas, but activities that people do. A startup-idea might be to find a way to make these activities easier. To make this list more useful, there should be two additional datapoints: 1. How many people does the activity impact 2. How much does the activity impact each person. The product of these would be the total impact. Sorting by the amount of impact would give the most valuable areas for in…

What's missing is a resource that would let you understand each activity, it's tools, processes, problems, etc.

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Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by cabaalis »

Just prepend "Uber for " or append " for developers" and this is indeed a startup idea list.

Also:

> 20. Carry messages or documents between departments.

"I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?"

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by jenkstom »

fencepost wrote: post #57

Even without the list being suitable for mockery, ideas are EASY . Ideas are like opinions, everybody has one. Take a shower, have some ideas. Go out for drinks, hear a bunch of drunk people talking about the great idea they just had. Winnowing out the chaff (not done here) is harder because not everyone agrees on what's chaff, and building a successful company for any of many definitions of success is harder still.…

It might be closer to say that the ideas are like producing sperm. Easy and fun to do, but getting one to an egg requires some logistical expertise.

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by Geee »

petra wrote: post #61
Geee wrote: post #54

These are not startup ideas, but activities that people do. A startup-idea might be to find a way to make these activities easier. To make this list more useful, there should be two additional datapoints: 1. How many people does the activity impact 2. How much does the activity impact each person. The product of these would be the total impact. Sorting by the amount of impact would give the most valuable areas for in…

What's missing is a resource that would let you understand each activity, it's tools, processes, problems, etc.

Actually, if you Google them, you'll find the ONET page for the job descriptions that includes the activity and has more information about the task, e.g. https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/51-8011.00 (tasks are the 'startup ideas')

Re: 20,000 Startup Ideas

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Post by eitland »

hermes0 wrote: post #43

Looks a bit random. If you give the start of this list to transformer https://talktotransformer.com/ the generated ones look as good as those, example: 5.Evaluate a vehicle's operation and use of the system and record information on the system, such as the number of miles driven, total mileage, speed, and odometer reading. 6.Prepare and administer reports to provide data on vehicle performance, and to support vehicle…

Maye someone should interface this to the patent applications system.

The idea is that if a bot can generate patent applications they aren't very novel.

From this we should backtrack and look at existing patents and throw a large percentage of them out : )

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