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by petra 6y ago
The interesting dynamics don't happen when you're outsourcing for the cheapest labor, just for cost savings But when every job can be remote, suddenly, a company in the middle of nowhere can get access to great technical leaders.
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by petra 6y ago
Restaurant Food is not exactly a commodity. It's more a habit, and around 70% of people are loyal customers of some restaurants. And UberEats, for example, currently has helped to create 4000 virtual restaurant brands. As for cost, at
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by petra 6y ago
10m seed stage companies surely don't exist. Banks historically gave 10m loans, to businesses. And today we have really good knowledge management tools. So isn't it possible to build some process for that for seed investment ?
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by petra 6y ago
>> If restaurants put any effort at all into fixing those things, there would not be such a strong demand for apps. In such a world, Some model of Ghost kitchens will thrive anyway, not small restaurants. Why ? The area a kitchen serv
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by petra 6y ago
Google CSE is a great idea.Tried it in the past. But i find the search is at a much lower quality than Google.
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by petra 6y ago
It looks really interesting. Sadly, it's Mac only. Does anybody knows of something similar for Windows or Linux ?
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by petra 6y ago
// There's actually very limited sectors where this dynamic exists (think the costs of a GB of data), but healthcare, construction, education, infrastructure all have not been automated, and hence aren't any cheaper. Tha
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by petra 6y ago
I'm not sure productivity is measured correctly. In general it's measured something like increase in $/employee. But let's say you're a commercial printer. The industry is moving to new printers that print double th
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by petra 6y ago
So OK, it's a good criteria for robotics companies: Do a valuable task, do it today, do it for less. And companies following that, and i'll add - aiming for B2B, even when failed, we'll see their competitors and industry suc
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by petra 6y ago
Sure. But it's not about scalability. This is about Walmart using the huge online grocery waiting times, and this service as a solution, in-order to educate wealthy shoppers to stop associating Walmart's low price with low quality
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by petra 6y ago
They're not retreating. It's an additional service.
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by petra 6y ago
Moovit has audio alerts, which Google Maps doesn't have. It's a valuable feature when riding a bus.
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by petra 7y ago
// Or is the ad informing him he can buy access to a spirit that will accompany him on his self selected journey and help his own desires and achieve his goals? That's a false narrative. We know brand advertising is generally
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by petra 7y ago
"do X using AI/ML", "do X using robotics" seem to be a pretty effective template.
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by petra 7y ago
Few ideas: Many personal robots and services - we'll do almost nothing. So we'll have more time for hobbies, which will need more tools etc . Building a green economy. Higher quality food more often. More healthcare, with aging et
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by petra 7y ago
Why ?
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by petra 7y ago
Nah. Most often a16z, as other VC's, invest in platforms. What do platforms often do: take an industry, served by many businesses, often small ones, and concentrate it. Than, the platform does most of the repetitive, scalable, work, wh
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by petra 7y ago
Uber only did it because their investors really believed they could capture the market. Most situations are not like that.
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by petra 7y ago
I wonder: Sure, the sample size on female leaders is very small. But what about the sample size of female bosses ? Are female bosses significantly better than male bosses ?
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by petra 7y ago
//What's the ongoing value? You find a lawn-mower or dog-walker you like, and cut out the middleman by paying them directly. There are contracts involved.More than 50% of people prefer not to mess with that stuff. That's
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by petra 7y ago
Not really. Many key technologies are created by startups. For example, startups are doing a lot in robotics and synthetic biology.
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by petra 7y ago
We have the same problem in Israel. So here when you order online, you don't get to choose items: you can only buy one standard list of products. Also,I believe it's possible to build a covid-19 safe ,pickup process. So scaling j
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by petra 7y ago
We're starting to see medical treatments, antibody testing, tracking, large scale respirator manufacturing, etc... Those building blocks will be needed if we want a plan that isn't too painful.
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by petra 7y ago
What about other companies besides ARM, licensing cores. Are their costs exaggerated ? Are they affordable for processor customization ?
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by petra 7y ago
On the other hand it's a repeating problem. We've being doing processor verification for a long time. Why can't we reuse that knowledge, that code ?
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by petra 7y ago
What about video chatting with people ?
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by petra 7y ago
Probably working together with a group, on an interesting and relevant project. The output will likely be better, and your skills will improve faster - because of the feedback. Or, for medium scale ideas, maybe taking another language and
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by petra 7y ago
roamresearch.com
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by petra 7y ago
I'm not a biologist, so I really don't know whether that's feasible.

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