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Cool Uber-for-X from Japan, which would seem to be a really really tough business:
“Why is that a tough business?”

Typical user needs it once per year, $8 price point. Even if you cram the stores down to a 50% take rate (because this is free money for them) the margin never gets good enough to afford scaled customer acquisition to cover your expenses.
But I do like it, aesthetically. It solves a problem for travelers and obviates the need for a frictionful interaction across a linguistic boundary which is very possible (“Hey mate can I just leave a bag behind the counter for a few hours?”) but requires some deftness.
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Patrick McKenzie
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My favorite heuristic for viable B2B software businesses: any spreadsheet routinely emailed with the instruction “Edit this and email it back to me.”
That business process is a SaaS app waiting to happen. It will be faster, more reliable, cheaper (once you back out the cost of employee time), and likely benefit from having a lot more brain power deployed against it by the SaaS company than by either of the ends of the email.
Have you ever had to have a spreadsheet to track how many people filled out the spreadsheet so that you can email them about the email to fill out your spreadsheet? Nobody went to college because they want to do that.

The SaaS app will merrily cronjob it’s way through that.
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Patrick McKenzie
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“The primary advantage of college is networking” seems to be believed by a lot of people, relatively few of whom avail themselves of the opportunity to network with undergrads or their professors in any given month.
This suggests one of two contrarian strategies and interestingly on the merits I think both are probably underrated. (Either a) radically decrease your weighting on college or b) intentionally network with college students regardless of your own career stage.)
You could totally do the second, btw. Put together a list of institutions. Find a go-getter on campus to book you a room. Offer Actual Real World Experience in Industry followed by pizza.
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This reminds me of seeing leave records for older salarymen (in same place mine were for recording my own leave, explicitly so that taking leave was visible to coworkers for shaming).

300+ calendar days of untaken leave over 20 years.
In a law of unintended consequences story, it is forbidden in Japan to pay leave out when you separate from a job, to avoid monetarily incentivizing salarymen to not take it during career.

So instead they just lose all the value when retiring (and/or separating earlier).
Like all cultures, the culture that is salarymanhood changes over time. One of the scandalized comments regarding millennials in Japan (generally said about “grass-eating men” not millennials but with similar social function) is that they take most of their leave, like savages.
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