Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
19 hours ago
- Ambitious startup ideas often feel frightening because they challenge your identity and ambition.
- A new search engine could compete with Google by focusing on what hackers want, such as fast, clutter-free results.
- Replace email with a todo list protocol that gives recipients more control and is faster than Gmail.
- Universities may be partially replaced by diverse learning methods, separating credentials from education.
- Deliver internet drama via platforms like Netflix or through payment/streaming infrastructure companies.
- The next hardware visionary could come from a startup, following the example set by Steve Jobs and Apple.
- Revive Moore's Law through software that simplifies parallel computing, potentially via a 'sufficiently smart compiler' or a marketplace for optimization.
- Ongoing automatic medical diagnosis could replace reactive healthcare, despite resistance from medical traditions and false-alarm concerns.
- Tactically, start with small, seemingly harmless projects and expand westward rather than attacking big problems directly.