91–100 of 171 posts
Anyone know what a "google voice" for credit cards is meant to mean?
NOTE: the following is a joke. or is it. Read to the end and decide for yourself. As a VC, I would never fund any of these. How about these twenty-five ideas for starters. 1. Combine local and real-time. (Google isn't) 2. Combine the cloud with viral marketing (Amazon isn't) 3. Disrupt green with crowd-sourcing. (Power companies aren't). 4. Curate blogging (the "blogosphere" is so wide it becomes meaningless. Get the…
Some of the others might be jokes or further fetched, but this is obviously not, and you'd be silly not to see that this is going to happen soon.
There are already plenty of biology databases, it's just that people don't know yet what to make out of that data.
Build an Etsy for Intellectual property
They stole my idea! I think it's good time to build that
Some other big problems: Prisons Retirement for not-so-rich people Government procurement Shipping (in developing countries) Customs (in developing countries) Utilities prices in Northern countries Digital democracy (removing corporate influence on elections)
There is a solution for retirement for not-so-rich people, it's called tax free, mandatory, funded, and benefactor owned superannuation. It forces everyone to contribute to their own retirement. It stops companies or governments from dipping into the "pot". It's tax free and so allows proper growth not only for the funds in question, but also allows for growth in the economy. Obviously there are some corner cases but…
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.
In Finland we have tens of companies offering short term cash loans based on text messages. I know few of these guys. If well-executed, these companies are money making machines, but they have very little of moat. You can enter this industry easily, if you have enough cash for initial advertising.
One I'm looking at - Google Analytics for print/billboard ads. Adwords/Analytics is great, because you can see exactly how much money you're spending, and exactly how many sales/conversions/downloads you're getting for that money. In the print world, this becomes much harder to measure. I'm looking at easy ways to make that happen
As someone who is itching to start an e-learning startup, what would be some ways to implement this?
For the user-created lessons, maybe have an IDE-like enviroment with a domain-specific "programming language" that enables non-coders to easily create educational modules and upload them. Think SCUMM but for the e-learning domain.
Thoughts, anyone?
Sounds really intriguing. What would it look like?