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This, 100%. The author says how difficult it is for multidisciplinary teams to come together when they don't understand each others skillsets--but the same appl
by Andyfilms 6y ago
This, 100%. The author says how difficult it is for multidisciplinary teams to come together when they don't understand each others skillsets--but the same applies to the investors themselves. When you start talking about these complicated ideas, there comes a point where unless the investor is involved in the industry they're investing in, they simply won't understand the true impact of it.
My company is trying to raise capital now, and that is the exact problem we're running into.
There's a reason for the "janitor as a service" unoriginal ideas--because they're easy to understand, so more likely to be funded. Those kinds of investors are looking for the buzzwords, too, "as a service," "cloud," "social," "AI" that cut off ideas that aren't strictly consumer-facing and infinitely scalable. If you have a modest idea that requires a modest amount of money and targets a modest group of people, you're just not going to hear back from investors. This causes people to have to wrap their idea in buzzwords or lobotomize it into something that allows them to achieve their true goal in a sideways manner.
- Igelau 6y ago> janitor as a service Tired of trusting the flimsy log sheet on the door to know when your custodial staff last cleaned the bathroom? We present: Toiletherium. A cryptocurrency-backed suite of apps and IoT devices that turns real cleaning into real consensus. Our state of the art MopMine equation incorporates real sweat and toil recorded by SmartMops into mining the next block. Pit teams against teams with MopSync, or set individuals against each other... the freedom of choice is yours!
- ryan_j_naughton 6y agoBrilliant. The dystopia we find ourselves in is palpable. Your language drives home the insanity of our times because not only is this product absurd but also believable.
- sushshshsh 6y agoWhen janitors are automated away by coronavirus, will we also need to teach the robots how to write on paper and read handwriting on paper?
- wsinks 6y agoYeah, that comment belongs on r/TIHI. Too close to home, too soon...
- b4ke 6y agoWas this gpt-3??? I’ll see myself out. Lol
- Igelau 6y agoThere's probably a good German word for the sudden doubt in one's humanity you get when you unintentionally fail a Turing Test. It's like the feeling I get when motion-activated sinks don't see me.
- throwaway8451 6y agoTwo suggestions: Menschlichkeitszweifel (Menschlichkeit = humaneness, Zweifel = doubt) Turingzweifel (Zweifel = doubt)
- thinkingkong 6y agoI present to you ‘Manna’ by Marshall Brain. http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
- james_s_tayler 6y agoIn 2017 that would have been the ICO to get in on. I can just see the geometric shapes spinning around on the marketing page.
- redis_mlc 6y ago> Tired of trusting the flimsy log sheet on the door to know when your custodial staff last cleaned the bathroom? Coincidentally, Ricoh developed and pre-marketed a waterproof tablet exactly for this use case - maintenance and housekeeping staff to record their work assignment progress and upload to the Cloud. Worked great too, but shelved because corporate reasons. One of the biggest sales blockers was educating hospitality managers on why the iPad wasn't the tablet answer. The anwer was theft-prone, not waterproof, not rugged, not forms -> cloud ready.
- krageon 6y agoI'm pretty sure you're joking but I'm almost certain I could sell this idea if I could keep a straight face through the sales pitch. You have talent :)
- op03 6y agoThis is describing just one painful route up the mountain. There are other routes, which usually involve sucking it up, going and working at Wall St or SV for a couple years till you know the "right people" and they know/trust you. After that happens the type of conversations change drastically.
- 1DRACOSEA8 6y agoYou’re doing it wrong. It’s about time and chemistry and knowing how to tell the story, even if it is in Yang Mills 5D
- adenta 6y agoWhat?
- tortasaur 6y agoJudging by the lack of coherency / relevance of the profile's other replies, I'm guessing it's a bot whose model someone's attempting to train on HN comments.
- krageon 6y agoA model that has coherency over multiple paragraphs? I don't think that's currently possible - but if I'm wrong about that I'd love a link to a study or a library if you have one. Natural language processing is something I'm very interested in.
- an_opabinia 6y ago> there comes a point where unless the investor is involved in the industry they're investing in, they simply won't understand the true impact of it. Equity financing is a bad measuring stick for this. But really, when you're competing with, "Buy gold because it's shiny!" - that would have earned investors 26.6 percentage points liquid return YTD - can you really fault people for being skeptical of complex ideas as a class of investments?