NEED
I have been trying to understand why there are not that many audiobooks in Spanish. If you go to www.audible.com you will find very poor collection of Spanish audiobooks. Even most of the bestsellers are not produced in Spanish.
DESCRIPTION
Create an www.audible.com for Latin America (in Spanish and Portuguese). Keep in mind that this probably means having a recording studio to create quality Spanish audiobooks of the bestsellers.
POTENTIAL
"Audiobooks are the fastest growing segment in publishing and everyone within the industry is very bullish about the future of the format. There are a number of new start-ups that are making waves and retailers are beginning to release that audiobooks are worth investing in. The global audiobook industry is currently evaluated at 2.8 billion dollars and this is primarily due to the sheer amount of new titles that were produced in 2015. 43,000 new audiobooks were released this year, which is a slight increase from the 36,000 that came out in 2014 and a far cry from the 20,000 that were issued in 2013." by Michael Kozlowski
Saturday, October 15, 2016
Friday, July 15, 2016
One location: Three restaurants
NEED
Most restaurants owners suffer from developing a concept that can be success at breakfast, lunch and dinner.
DESCRIPTION
A system that can help three different restaurant owners to have the same location. One for breakfast, one for lunch and one for dinner. It will have to be something that is flexible enough to accommodate the differences of each business but at the same time allow for some scalability of the operation.
POTENTIAL
$782.7 billion in restaurant industry sales in the US.
Most restaurants owners suffer from developing a concept that can be success at breakfast, lunch and dinner.
DESCRIPTION
A system that can help three different restaurant owners to have the same location. One for breakfast, one for lunch and one for dinner. It will have to be something that is flexible enough to accommodate the differences of each business but at the same time allow for some scalability of the operation.
POTENTIAL
$782.7 billion in restaurant industry sales in the US.
Friday, April 15, 2016
Kickstarter for concerts
NEED
Not all cities have the luck of having a great concert promoter or organizers that bring the right artist to your location. You hope that the promoter or organizer is good at his/her job but you actually never know. Even the best promoters and organizers have "bad" events where they don´t make any money or even lose money.
DESCRIPTION
A crowdfunding/sourcing platform that puts together promoter/organizers, fans and artists. The same way kickstarters works but for concerts or other events.
POTENTIAL
Live Nation Entertainment generated US$4.73 billion in 2014.
Not all cities have the luck of having a great concert promoter or organizers that bring the right artist to your location. You hope that the promoter or organizer is good at his/her job but you actually never know. Even the best promoters and organizers have "bad" events where they don´t make any money or even lose money.
DESCRIPTION
A crowdfunding/sourcing platform that puts together promoter/organizers, fans and artists. The same way kickstarters works but for concerts or other events.
POTENTIAL
Live Nation Entertainment generated US$4.73 billion in 2014.
Friday, January 15, 2016
New incubation model
NEED
I have been thinking about the incubation and acceleration model and I think there could be a way to improve the process. Imagine if you could crowdsource different parts of the startup creation process. For example you have a crowdsource platform that measures what are the different needs of the participants. Then you have other users that provide ideas on how to solve those needs. Then you have a founder bank that get assign to ideas that they feel passionate about.
DESCRIPTION
I have been thinking about the incubation and acceleration model and I think there could be a way to improve the process. Imagine if you could crowdsource different parts of the startup creation process. For example you have a crowdsource platform that measures what are the different needs of the participants. Then you have other users that provide ideas on how to solve those needs. Then you have a founder bank that get assign to ideas that they feel passionate about.
DESCRIPTION
- Platform that has link popular needs to business ideas
- Founding team (one biz one tech) gets approve
- Selects idea from bank that is passionate about
- Gets financing $100-200K for a year.
- Need to make it work (specific metrics, KPIs for traction) in a year
- If it doesn't achieve that it gets zero. If achieves the team gets 50%
POTENTIAL
Just in crunchbase there are 55K investors and the top 50 investors have already made 30K investments.
Just in crunchbase there are 55K investors and the top 50 investors have already made 30K investments.
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Fast Fashion App
NEED
Most women when they have an event or special occasion will stand in front of their closets and say: "I don't have anything to wear"
DESCRIPTION
An app that knows your taste for fast fashion that can be access a couple of hours before an event where you want to wear something new. The app shows you a couple of trendy options. You select and buy. The item will arrive to your house in less than an hour. Maybe the way the app get the suggestions for the user is though crowd sourcing from close friends
POTENTIAL
Womenswear represents a US$662 billion global market.
Most women when they have an event or special occasion will stand in front of their closets and say: "I don't have anything to wear"
DESCRIPTION
An app that knows your taste for fast fashion that can be access a couple of hours before an event where you want to wear something new. The app shows you a couple of trendy options. You select and buy. The item will arrive to your house in less than an hour. Maybe the way the app get the suggestions for the user is though crowd sourcing from close friends
POTENTIAL
Womenswear represents a US$662 billion global market.
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
One character for all video games
NEED:
Can you imagine if you could export your character to all games?
DESCRIPTION
Ok, this is pretty far fetched but sounds also like a cool idea.
POTENTIAL
Not sure.
Can you imagine if you could export your character to all games?
DESCRIPTION
Ok, this is pretty far fetched but sounds also like a cool idea.
POTENTIAL
Not sure.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Crowdsourcing Games
NEED
Currently we have kickstarter and other to crowdfund games but what about crowdsource games?Probably there is no a specific need for this idea. It would just be cool.
DESCRIPTION
A platform that would incentive collaboration for specific tasks in the creation of a game. This is probably similar to the music collaboration idea where you have to have a mastermind that can create a vision to guide the development of the entire process. I see how we have had opensource software in different areas, so this is not so crazy. The business model probably will have to be charitable contribution.
POTENTIAL
[Updated] Total revenues for the gaming industry in the U.S. hit $23.5 billion in 2015.
Currently we have kickstarter and other to crowdfund games but what about crowdsource games?Probably there is no a specific need for this idea. It would just be cool.
DESCRIPTION
A platform that would incentive collaboration for specific tasks in the creation of a game. This is probably similar to the music collaboration idea where you have to have a mastermind that can create a vision to guide the development of the entire process. I see how we have had opensource software in different areas, so this is not so crazy. The business model probably will have to be charitable contribution.
POTENTIAL
[Updated] Total revenues for the gaming industry in the U.S. hit $23.5 billion in 2015.
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