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 stratosphere of the blogosphere).
5. post-pc disruption. (Fingerpaint for iPhone - 1 guy, VC-ready company. needed a mac to develop. give an Indian with no mac, no pc, nothing BUT an iPhone enough tools to disrupt post-pc)
6. scale photos. Flickr doesn't.
7. the Google of Facebook. (G+ is the Facebook of Google. Where's the Google of facebook?)
8. empower html5. (Where's the Adobe of HTML 5?)
9. the skype of documents. (Google Docs isn't it)
10. the apple of automobiles. ("iPod integration"? Give me a 'brake').
11. bring the cloud to ultramobiles. ("ultrabooks" are a joke, and the cloud is too big. Find a way to make ultrabooks/macbook airs the macs of iOS)
12. the reddit of shopping. (eBay is not it).
13. disrupt ad platforms, virally. People are sick of signing in and getting information collected (Google starting to suck)
14. one word: Firefox. (Firefox isn't it).
15. one word: Office. (Office isn't it).
16. one word: ultramobile. (MacBook isn't).
17. one word: ultralite mobile. (iOS isn't it)
18. one word: TechCrunch (TechCrunch isn't it)
19. one word: Banking (Banking isn't it)
20. one word: Trending (Analytics isn't it)
21. one word: Microblogging (Twitter isn't it)
22. one word: Dating (plenty-of-fish isn't)
23. one word: Family disruption, aka Whores. (craigslist isn't)
24. one word: disrupt paradigms. (YC isn't).
25. one word: cloud. (the cloud isn't.)
what is this, some kind of a joke? Can you even tell anymore. Disrupt this.
The biology/synthetic biology part of his post are most interesting. While some of them are more 2022 - 2032 type items and some of them don't really make sense their cadence is that anyone sleeping on biotech is going to miss everything. The current stage is something like just pre altair, waiting for the Apple II equivalent. The future of biology is, how do you engineer devices with a mind of their own? Add ambiguity to terms like genetic programming, synthetic intelligence, artificial immune system, antivirus.
Thanks to the increasing powers of computers and developments in machine learning, a bunch of things which will change society in unimaginable ways will come from biotech. Aspects including principled drug design and anti-disease techniques that will make modern medicine look shamanistic, ethics of performance and intelligence boosting therapies, blurring the line between adoption and parenthood - what does it mean to be a parent if you have tampered with the genetic expression of your child so much that they share little genetic similarity to you? Increasing ability to interface with machines. People are gonna be doing it, will you need to evolve your morals or get left behind? How do you stop people from settling at local optimums, mass producing the same sets of traits and ceasing in exploring the genetic space?
Bans and censure - some will say some things shouldnt be touched but if there's any lesson that can be gotten from fantasy novels its that having a category of black magic just gives more power to the less principled. More polarization between the haves and have nots. Security - how to defend against synthetic plagues. Technology moves on inexorably. Our ability to handle the dangers of the coming age will decide our fate. Moral dilemmas like if we show ourselves incapable of surviving, is it ok to engineer compassion, long term thinking and rationality at the expense of the ability and freedom of will to choose such?
I did get a good idea from this list, from #13 "disrupt ad platforms, virally". Have a facebook app or something where users list their favorite brands/products/etc. Then go to the companies and say "I have 13,000 uses that really like your brand, Nike - give me a coupon to give to them". Not everyone will jump, but some brands will try it out. That will get more users and users putting more brands on their list to get more freebies. Then sell all the brand data to advertisers. Everybody is happy.
Neither this one nor the OP do fix what Defren to be the single big problem every one will have in a few years : the planned war between China and USA...I was not believing it before but last week a little 10 tee years old Chinese girl told me about it, and now I'm scared. Where are those technical barrie lifting revolutions in these lists? Where is the next Babel? Internet, wikipedia had much higher goal than these things. (written on phone)
Joke or not, there's always interesting ideas. I'd say 22 is well served by OKCupid combining PoF with actual usability, 23 apparently by any number of services I've never used and that Android is having a crack at 11 and 17.
And I suspect I'm not the only one who's concept notes folder includes outlines for 4 and 12.
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 the one that shows a strong effect - and is "significant" at the 1% confidence level :)
actually if you catch this in time and are able to drop me a line, will you delete your comment with the suggestion, and I will delete any comments (except the original 25 suggestions) including this one. you can reach me for 24 hours at 6V1ImNQ5g9ui@meltmail.com
I love your idea and I think we can make it work in this climate.
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 stratosphere of the blogosphere).
5. post-pc disruption. (Fingerpaint for iPhone - 1 guy, VC-ready company. needed a mac to develop. give an Indian with no mac, no pc, nothing BUT an iPhone enough tools to disrupt post-pc)
6. scale photos. Flickr doesn't.
7. the Google of Facebook. (G+ is the Facebook of Google. Where's the Google of facebook?)
8. empower html5. (Where's the Adobe of HTML 5?)
9. the skype of documents. (Google Docs isn't it)
10. the apple of automobiles. ("iPod integration"? Give me a 'brake').
11. bring the cloud to ultramobiles. ("ultrabooks" are a joke, and the cloud is too big. Find a way to make ultrabooks/macbook airs the macs of iOS)
12. the reddit of shopping. (eBay is not it).
13. disrupt ad platforms, virally. People are sick of signing in and getting information collected (Google starting to suck)
14. one word: Firefox. (Firefox isn't it).
15. one word: Office. (Office isn't it).
16. one word: ultramobile. (MacBook isn't).
17. one word: ultralite mobile. (iOS isn't it)
18. one word: TechCrunch (TechCrunch isn't it)
19. one word: Banking (Banking isn't it)
20. one word: Trending (Analytics isn't it)
21. one word: Microblogging (Twitter isn't it)
22. one word: Dating (plenty-of-fish isn't)
23. one word: Family disruption, aka Whores. (craigslist isn't)
24. one word: disrupt paradigms. (YC isn't).
25. one word: cloud. (the cloud isn't.)
what is this, some kind of a joke? Can you even tell anymore. Disrupt this.