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I agree - we need more oportunistas to invest in businesses in developing countries.

I invested in this African company: http://unreasonableinstitute.org/profile/mwilkerson/

It was a little easier as the founder was from the US and I met him here, and then he returned to Africa to continue running the operation. Wish more African founders had the opportunity to raise money here.

>do you think such a concept might have legs?

I do! I have been thinking about this much like you BjoernKW.. my dream is individual bid able pivotal tasks, that are part of a coherent whole agile project. When organized the right way, the fastest person to complete them on a distributed team wins, and there would be no limit of team size.

I actually ran a request on Bountify, and it was cool. There was some pushback for programmers who thought it was too much of a project for low $, while others enjoyed completing it for the challenge (and actually got paid).

Plenty of challenges (in making this really work for companies), but I believe Bountify has a good start here.

Seminal article - fantastic. I immediately calculated growth rate for Mightbuy.it - posted them here: http://blog.mightbuy.it/2012/09/22/user-growth/

The total #s are pretty embarrassing but the growth rate actually looks good, at around 10% currently - except the rate of growth of the growth is decreasing.. how meaningful is growth rate for such short time periods?

In my case I'm closer to the first stage of just making a product people want, but seems useful to keep track of this rate already.

PS - please sign up and help a brother out.

>>1000x the resources If you look at the scientist working on it was about that. They had Heisenberg. And about that money wise (don't have the exact numbers.)

The Abomb is a really bad example of not needing government. It was almost entirely an example of what can happen with total government support.. unfortunately that usually comes during a war.

Einstein invented the atomic bomb? That's funny. Not very HN level of knowledge there buddy.

And yes.. that is almost exactly the reason (US vs Germany developed the first atomic bomb). 1000x the resources and scientists, applied to a know physical possibility, supported by: the government, and infrastructure via the army.

Well, this was in 2005 to be fair.. and that was the rate for VB6 on Windows. In Moldova, a place I've never heard of. I didn't pick the price, just paid it. Not the going price anymore I'm sure.

I meant to have a lot of qualifications in the submission: Faster than google by being slower! - you need to find a price - you need to find a image - you if google front page doesn't show you that, you have to count browsing to the link, opening it up, finding price.

When I googled Apple Iphone 4, google still wins, as one of their ads shows me a iphone 4 with a price.

But for some more unique brands, something more interesting, often it takes a browse into the site to get an image and price. Google will always get initial results faster.

Sorry, I had a big comment/explanation when I submitted this, but looks like it was lost.

That is - mightbuy search is faster than google by being slower. For example, search for "Khunu Chimera" (a yak wool sweater) on mightbuy.it/search. It should return picture and prices (much more slowly than google).

But you don't have to navigate to the sub links. And google.com/shopping doesn't have the Khunu chimera at all.

Seriously? You can't tell?

>only interested in the big ideas that sounds crazy that big companies reject.

Great! I've got that covered... we'll see though seems like a lot of VCs like safe a sure bets, proof that it is already working.