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Idea: Kickstarter as Venture Capital

Kickstarter‘s pretty cool. For example, their platform enables you to follow organizations seeking funding, and see the number of people invested in it. That’s great for its target audience. But to really turn loose the power of micro-angels, you have … Continue reading

11. June 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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Idea: Urban Farming Platform

LOL. A business idea I was shopping around to various incubators and VC’s a year and a half ago (getting all kinds of weird looks) is taking off. Farmscape in CA is minting ($54,000 in 2010 alone!). Here’s my original … Continue reading

03. May 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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Idea: Subscription Retirement

Upon retirement, buy a remainder-of-your-life-lease. Every month, pay a set amount into the pool – to keep utilities, medical care, food, and other services going. Credit for doing work (in the greenhouse, or as a nurse, etc) or ideas (work … Continue reading

02. May 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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Destroying Online Reputations With Noise

Someone’s applied my idea for gaming online reputations and built it upon a LinkedIn interface. The result is Unvarnished. Not nearly as holistic as expected, but it’s a good step forward. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.

31. March 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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Idea: MilitiaPorn

Something along the lines of Hot Chicks with Douchebags. Roam around militia movement websites/Youtube videos for quality snippets of overweight middle-aged white guys in BDU’s sporting various weapons and artificial ranks and curate a blog of the finest examples. Should … Continue reading

29. March 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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