Startup Idea #16: Brands sponsored widgets

Updated: 30 Nov 2007Cleared the previous idea on last.fm for micro learning since I could not figure out how that is different from having a personalised or 'branded' RSS feed. Create a marketplace for brands to sponsor widgets on social profiles. Users can to choose which widgets they prefer. No advertisement here. The interaction of the user with the brand sponsored widget IS the advertiseme...

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Startup Idea#15: Last.fm for stock picks

Updated: 27 Dec 2007This idea takes the lastfm approach of utilizing "web 2.0" technologies to deliver insights to stock picking. The idea is to collect and analyse stock investment among social groups, communities et al. Examples of benefits include:- seeing all the stock investments by your friends in an aggregated and structured way?- seeing all the people with the same investment style as the user? and to compare which potential stock investments can lead to the most reward?- seeing the stock related news that your friends/groups are reading?- seeing the most common route about the level of risk/returns that that I really want? What do people invest to achieve that level Now imagine you layer on even more interesting data, especially with job boards. For example, once you have determined...

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Startup Idea #14: Virtual currency in real world enterprise solutions

A lot of business efforts have been focused on using real world currency on virtual world items or actions. However, the reverse of using virtual currency on real world actions might also offer business ideas. One such opportunity is in the enterprise space. I can imagine, for example, using virtual currencies in a staff reward system. There are a few companies that employ instant rewards to employees for well accomplished jobs. A virtual currency system can be implemented to let managers give out such rewards in a more timely manner. Employees can then redeem these currencies for real financial gains at the end of financial year. The advantages of such a system is that virtual currencies relieve HR of the complications of financial administration and at the same time provide timely motivation...

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Startup Idea#13: Open source CAD

Provide an open source CAD. Autodesk, the market leader in 3D CAD, commands over a billion in revenue. If we change the model of the industry, similar to what MySQL did for the database industry, we can potentially disrupt the entire CAD market.See article for related thoughtshttp://cofes.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/272/EntryID/116/Default.aspxUpdated: 26 Feb 2008See this link for the most pirated software. Signals the pent up demand for an open source CAD syst...

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Startup Idea #12: Branding 2.0

Updated: 4 March 2008Will unite the startup idea#12 and startup ideas#16 under the umbrella of branding 2.0 since they are different possibilities of dominant designBranding is this age of cheap interaction and coordination, is about enabling true conversations to take place between companies and users. It is about making advertising more useful to the users. In this prosumer generation, brands must engage consumers by giving them a playground for them to remix, to recreate, to build upon, to improve, to personalise the products as how they see it. It is letting consumers decide what is important to them and what they would like the companies to do to serve them better.The opportunity here is to create a dominant design of how such interaction/coordination will look and feel. Below are several...

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Startup Idea#11: Reconstructor for lacking content in search log analysis

Updated: 22 Nov 2007Completely dropped the previous idea as it is not interesting enough on a strategic and economic level. The replacement idea is this: to have a last.fm type of application to automatically that plugs the gaps as revealed by search log analysis.(See blog post here for how useful search log analysis can be)Current search log analysis tells you what is missing in your content, what is the content needed to fulfill the long tail of search queries et al. The greater value is when the application can immediately suggest sources of content to plug the gap. This form of reconstruction has result in tremenduous value creationDropped IdeaThis idea links up the growing popularity of virtual worlds (see cyworld, club penginue, world of warcraft) with real world chores. A simple virtual...

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