Ask HN: Looking for some input/feedback on a crackpot idea
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I like how you think, at http://londoncreativelabs.com we're starting to do some of that with our Social Startup Labs.
Check out http://londoncreativelabs.com/labs for the reports from a couple of prototype Social Startup Labs.
Check out http://londoncreativelabs.com/labs for the reports from a couple of prototype Social Startup Labs.
I just cut & pasted from a textfile, so the the formatting is a bit quirky.
You have a horizontal scrollbar. Here's the problem: some of your lines have too many spaces at the beginning. If you start a line with (I think) four spaces, it becomes <code> formatted, which kills word wrapping (hence, no linebreaks). So, you should remove the spaces.
Hacking Quality of Life for the world don't hack for calender apps and annoying ads, hack for bettering the world....and make money. making money is cool.
Opportunity Index: (use some sort of weighting based on the following)
- quality of life index
- access to internet/freedom to do so
- identify primary economic sectors in each area you are assessing & identify how people make their income in said area(largest industry is not always primary income generator for an area!)
-look for inefficiencies in these areas (the less efficient, the higher the opportunity)
- look at social problems in the area you are assessing
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Primary Breakdown:
Continent ->
Sector -> (examples)
Medical ->
Financial ->
Technology ->
Life Sciences ->
Manufacturing ->
Social -> (not facebook social, more like homeless people/libraries getting shut down in urban areas/lack of education - social) Etc....
elements:
- brief summary of idea & how it can improve quality of life
- applicable markets( sector, location, est. market cap, est. revenue, etc...)
Iput/questions/feedback/insults all welcome.