5x5x5–17/6
2 min readJun 16, 2016
5 Ideas, 5 Problems and 5 Opportunities.
At the beginning of May I started writing down 10 ideas a day before realizing halfway through the month that they were just ideas, not solutions. From there I started to write down 5 problems and 5 opportunities for the future.
Now I post 5 ideas, 5 problems and 5 opportunities daily because what’s the use in keeping them to myself with no criticism?
Ideas
- Job board for entry level positions in your city/country for graduating students.
- VC economics — a website that visualizes how VC investments get returned. E.g input $V for a W% stake, sell for $X and profit $Y etc.
- Minimalist package design.
- Collection of minimalist stories.
- Curated list of companies focusing on genetics, AR, agriculture etc. Markets that are harder to win in but have more impact on society.
Problems
- Currently too many students are focusing on being a software developer, and not expanding hardware skills.
- Finding or building a team of developers and marketers.
- Learning how to make a simple AI program in python.
- Finding a small, cheap hardware project to work on.
- Small businesses (butchers, fruit shops etc) don’t have access to developers/IT help unless they know someone or an employee knows what to do.
Opportunities
- The majority of problems in the future won’t be able to be solved with just a bit of software. In most cases it will be hardware or a combination of science and hardware that will be the most effective solution. Currently too many students are focusing on being a software developer.
- Being able to manipulate, correlate and gather data in the future will be huge.
- Working with Government to create smart city technology.
- Creating consumer products for smart homes and offering installation.
- Educating people outside of technology studies of what industries will be arriving soon.
If you found some of these cool or accurate, give me a heart ❤
On Twitter as @awoldes, check out my current project on makethatstartup.com
