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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Movie Addicts App

NEED
I love movies. I always think that the renting of movies should be much cheaper. But how?

DESCRIPTION
Imagine if we could create some type of volume discount for movies being rented through an app that can organize the different fans/users. Something similar to the Groupon system. Each rental will be set to specific times (similar to a cinema process). For example, it is Thursday night, you access the app and there are 5 movies showing that day at 9pm. If, for example, 10 buyers purchase that same movie rental then each pays $1 dollar.

POTENTIAL
[Updated] "The global film industry shows healthy projections for the coming years, as the global box office revenue is forecast to increase from about 38 billion U.S. dollars in 2016 to nearly 50 billion U.S. dollar in 2020. The U.S. is the third largest film market in the world in terms of tickets sold per year, only behind China and India. More than 1.2 billion movie tickets were sold in the U.S. in 2015. There are about 5,800 cinema sites in the U.S. as of 2015. About 14 percent of Americans go to the movies about once a month, seven percent go see movies in the movie theater twice or three times a month, whereas 37 percent go a few times a year. This is a considerable share taking into account 53 percent of American adults prefer watching movies at home" by Statista

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Helping Restaurant´s Inventory Through Crowdsourcing

NEED
Most restaurant owners suffer from managing inventory. This is how "day´s special" was invented. Nevertheless imagine if there was a better way of solving the issue of inventory in restaurants.

DESCRIPTION
Platform that connects restaurants with users. Allowing users to get discounts on plates that help restaurant managers with their inventory. It sounds very similar to Groupon, I know, but it is very different for the restaurant. It is not attracting user to the restaurant, it is attracting users to a specific meal.

POTENTIAL
Global restaurant industry sales more than $2B in 2014 [Updated]

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Insurance Incident App

NEED
If you have ever been in an accident you know what a hassle is to deal with all the insurance process.

DESCRIPTION
An app that can streamline the insurance claim process from the starting point of the crash or incident to the end.

POTENTIAL
More than 2M car crashes a year in the United State.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Parenting Platform

NEED:
I have been thinking lately that I would love to read books on parenting from the perspective of the parent and the son/daughter. Obviously this will require for the son/daughter to be of certain age to be able to bring a clear perspective. I am starting to think that even though each child is different there should be a book that could serve as a guide to how to motivate our children depending on personalities. I know that no child is equal and everybody have different personality. Nevertheless I feel that someone could try to summarize them in 2, 5, 10 personalities and write a book about how to motivate kids with similar personalities.

DESCRIPTION
This is probably a crowdsource platform. A platform that can guide parents in this difficult path of parenting. The platform basically uses the information from thousands of learning lessons from parent-child pairs. 


POTENTIAL
Difficult to assess but how many parents are they in the world?