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Office Hours with Paul Graham TC Disrupt NY 2011
- iqster 15y agoI really liked the feedback given by PG to startup #2 - allow companies to sell their extra leads (company was a video interview website for unskilled labour - target is big retailers). Event is going on right now btw. You can see the livestream. And they will likely post a video subsequently. Update 1: They're on the fourth person now. The common theme seems to be "how will people benefit from this product". Person #4 came with a solution with potentially interesting technology. However, from right off the bat, the conversation went towards use cases! The questions and comments are happening at a rapid pace. One definitely needs to be able to think of their feet! Update 2: Person # 5 seems to be describing the same thing as Sonar (a startup that presented on Day 1 - link: http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/sonar-finds-you-the-most-relevant-people-in-the-room/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/sonar-finds-you-the-most-re...), but specific to the airport.
- iqster 15y agoPG mentioned that future geo-location would be very powerful. This is totally possible :) http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Publication/2433619/predestination-inferring-destinations-from-partial-trajectories http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Publication/2433619/p...
- iqster 15y agoGah! Person #6 mentioned peeking at prices. Sounds similar to another TC Disrupt battlefield company called SneakPeeq - link: http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/sneaqpeeq-is-the-social-shopping-mall-where-as-you-shop-the-price-drops/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/sneaqpeeq-is-the-social-sho...