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This is something I've wanted many times in the past. How will you guarantee variety of trips? Will people just end up seeing roughly the same things? How are you making money? What similar things have been tried, and why have they fai
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I don't think I understand what you're pitching. Can you explain it better? Only your first three sentences described what you're trying to build, and just in vague terms.
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11y ago
This is a really hard problem, do you and your team have the necessary skills to pull it off? How will the makeup actually be applied?
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11y ago
This sounds really slow unless you can get it driving on streets. A reasonable maximum speed for a sidewalk is somewhere between 2 and 5mph. What's to stop someone taking a delivery from the robot? Or from just taking the robot? In w
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11y ago
How will you handle the large and looming legal fees?
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11y ago
I'm having trouble visualizing the economics of this. Why would I spend maybe 30 minutes trying to earn $2? Could you do this with much larger rewards for fewer advertisers? eg CocaCola will reward $1000 to somebody who makes a great c
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11y ago
What do you solve that a Google search doesn't? How will you make money?
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11y ago
What kind of arbitration agreement am I signing up for as a contractor? As a contractor, why would I do this instead of waiting for customers on Angie's List? What if my initial estimate was wrong and the window costs 2x what I thought
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11y ago
> You cannot ping a person outside 8 x 8 of your grid There are probably more than 64 people in the whole world I'm compatible with. Is this cycled? Can you explain more, maybe I misunderstand.
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This sounds very promising to me, but I know almost nothing about this field. How does the cost of one of your textured catheters compare to the cost of an existing catheter? Would the additional savings in antibiotics and deaths negate tha
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11y ago
> Our aim is to optimize processes by implementing machine learning with the data gathered from the devices connected to our platform. What does this mean and why do I need it (assuming I'm an IoT manufacturer)?
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11y ago
I think something like this is needed, but I question the need for an actual tour guide. What if I wanted to go to Vancouver and I wanted a walking tour with some great food and drinks, with some idle time spent at a couple parks or walking
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11y ago
This seems like it'll be more expensive, on average, for the consumer because I'll inevitably miss a haircut. How do you convince someone to use you, and will you have to resort to gym-like cancellation difficulties to keep your r
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11y ago
Will this end up being a dating app? Would that be a bad thing? What happens if you get paired with someone you don't like? Do I get to see who I eat with before meeting them? How do you make money?
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11y ago
Why will you be successful when so many neighborhood websites have failed in the past? How do you overcome people's general apathy towards their neighbors (which is especially true in cities!). For the sake of discussion, let's ta
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11y ago
This seems like an interesting idea So the user will install your app and link their credit card, and every site that uses your service will just show a QR code? It sounds like you suffer from a pretty bad chicken-and-egg problem. A merchan
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How is your service different from what CloudFlare offers with it's DDoS mitigation? I think I might misunderstand your goals. Is bot traffic a nuisance or actually a problem? If it's not enough traffic to bring my site down, why
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11y ago
I don't understand how you're going to measure and duplicate effective learning strategies. What is a better metric for learning than the student's grade? How will you improve on it? How will you give the teacher the feedback
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11y ago
Does this integrate with the existing loyalty card networks? How are you better than FiveStars? > download our tablet app, purchase a stand Does this mean any merchant using Square can't use you? Why would I choose you instead of a
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Interesting take on social networking How will you prevent abuse? How will you make money? Buy the app? Pay for catchy hashtags? Hashtags probably won't be unique, how do you control who gets what? What happens if user A and user B bot
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I had the same initial thought about friend tiers. Could maybe be solved by electing to broaden the circle out as you hear back from closer friends?
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Shopping on Amazon's mobile app is pretty good. How is shopping with you better? How does this work? Is it just like installing lastpass on your phone? Why is it better than that option?
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How does this integrate with existing tools? > This will drastically reduce the time and manpower it takes to design cars, space vehicles, planes, etc. I don't understand how this follows. Can you give an example of the savings your
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How big is this market? How much could you actually make from this?
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Is there actual proof of an EEG recording being useful for diagnosing and tracking treatment of a mental health problem?
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How much work is it to integrate an new API into brightwork? Will all of my API calls have to be proxied by brightwork? If so, is the only benefit to lock-in the cost projection?
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Seems like a good idea on the surface. How well do you know the compliance requirements for this industry? Will you make money from the companies giving this as a benefit, or by taking a cut from users, or some other way? How will software
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> Also, my former firm needs this type of software and failed at creating it. Can you say more about this? Why did they fail? How will you avoid the same problems?
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My biggest problem when traveling is choosing a hotel near the things that I'm interested in. For me that's food, for others it's parks and museums, and others it's shopping. Would your service help me? Another issue I h
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This is a really good point I was definitely undervaluing. Casual friendships are useful for eliminating loneliness and the feeling of not knowing anyone in your neighborhood. I would definitely try this in a new city, but maybe not if I&#x
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