Free Startup Ideas

Re:Free Startup Ideas by NickHolt on Sunday March 23, 2014 @06:45AM (#7452845)

At the risk of sounding negative, I thought the majority of these ideas were absolutely awful. Even if one of these did inspire someone to put the work in, I doubt it would get them very far.

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Re:Free Startup Ideas by pitchups on Sunday March 23, 2014 @09:40AM (#7453258)

Remember though, that the best ideas initially sound like really bad ideas, as explained by PG in his essay (based on pretty good empirical evidence from funding hundreds of them ): http://paulgraham.com/swan.html

So there could well be a few outliers in there. Of course, that is a necessary, not a sufficient condition, i.e, not all bad ideas are going to be successful - but the most successful ones sound like really bad ideas to begin with.

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Re:Free Startup Ideas by impostervt on Sunday March 23, 2014 @07:41AM (#7452982)

You get what you pay for.

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Re:Free Startup Ideas by vladmk on Sunday March 23, 2014 @01:22PM (#7454119)

Precisely, way to complain about free stuff geez, so you want me to execute them, pivot and mail the money? :-)

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Re:Free Startup Ideas by russell on Sunday March 23, 2014 @02:43PM (#7454455)

Sounds like a great business to me, better than I've managed to do by myself. Sign me up.

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Re:Free Startup Ideas by vladmk on Sunday March 23, 2014 @04:25PM (#7454964)

I think that one will go bankrupt and we'll have to pivot.

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