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Wonga for USA: a lot ( and there are v many clones ) of these lending companies are already US companies. They have presences in USA, but have exploded in the UK because the Usury laws are less restrictive. http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/factcheck-are-payday-loa... And that evenings Channel 4 news piece where the industry spokesman talks about it.
I don't know why, but I tried opening this site in 3 different mobile browsers and couldn't get it to scroll.
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you should start a snarky blog called startuprunoff.com where you simultaneously create a buzzmachine that can raise money for any company and kill the same exact buzz before it even launches.
(the parent replied to my now-deleted grandparent). you are right, comment deleted. this is a gold mine. I shouldn't kill the buzz. may I email you for the create-buzz-but-not-kill-it-off concept by going ridiculous only serious. just drop me an obfuscated email if interested. the snarkmachine can be a complete secret, like producing a statistically significant result by running 400 experiments and publishing just th…
I love your idea and I think we can make it work in this climate.
I don't know why, but I tried opening this site in 3 different mobile browsers and couldn't get it to scroll.
Man, if anything this article proved to me that I should always be absolutely terrified of pressure testing half-baked ideas on HN. And if I have the balls to do so, at least make sure my blog works.
Wonga for USA: a lot ( and there are v many clones ) of these lending companies are already US companies. They have presences in USA, but have exploded in the UK because the Usury laws are less restrictive. http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/factcheck-are-payday-loa... And that evenings Channel 4 news piece where the industry spokesman talks about it.
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> 15. Airbnb for Activities See http://www.gidsy.com
Are these really ideas for typical startups. The high tech ideas aren't very well suited for startups. More for Universities and big corporation's side projects.
25. Uber for food We're working on that right now at munchery.com
We spend our lives accumulating valuable knowledge and relationships. Then we allow our elders to just die and let that knowledge and their relationships die with them. Why are youngsters forced into teaching jobs, when they have no life experience to novate to kids?
Find a mechanism for achieving a solid transfer of knowledge from the elderly to the young (the caveat being the young need to be taught to reason for themselves and filter out the less useful bits)
For the record: sending kids to school does not equal them being educated or learned.