Thread by @vijayanands

Over the years I've been jotting down ideas in a #BlackBook, hoping that someday someone would build a startup around that space. As a way of accelerating that serendipity, I'm putting out those ideas - one, every week.

Here is the thread of them. 🧵

#1 : The way we evaluate startups at the moment is quite inefficient. We are only going to be creating more startups as we go forward. And it helps to build a better framework.

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#2 : We are still predominantly a one-way broadcast system, with communication and chatter happening adjacently. The future is with Hypermedia when we start interacting with mainstream communications.

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#3 : I believe that the future of healthcare is unbundling hospitals - what has happened to fintech, retail, education, etc, is slated to happen to health tech.

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#4 : It sometimes feels like India's retail story is already told with the coming of age of eCommerce. I'd say we are just getting started. Where do we go from here, in retail?

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#5 : Talking about Unbundling, Bollywood is another sector that is ripe for unbundling, and with it, will emerge some of the sectors like independent music in India. But within the movie industry, there are big gaps still.

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#6 : Education is chaos at the moment, where Education, vocational training, and skills training are all intermingled into one complex blob. Here's an attempt at decluttering the education landscape (and the gaps that are wide open).

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#7 : The US Philanthropic contribution (by individuals) acrosses USD250bn each year - going into non-profits that are tasked with solving the hardest of problems. But that sector is quite underrepresented as a target demographic.

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#8 : It is almost the order of things for platforms to emerge and fall, and then for new platforms to emerge in their place. What are the opportunities that arise when platforms fail?

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#9 : What is the future of Food? If we have to break this sector into a way we can make sense, what does i look like and where are the gaps?

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#10 : Superheroes are big business. And India (and Asia) are the land of the original superheroes. But we have barely gotten started on opportunities it presents. Here's a how-to.

blackbook.thestartupcentre.com/superheroes/

#11 : 56% of Millenials believe that they are an influencer of some sort within their niche community. And some of them have made fortunes being one. We are certainly in what is the time of the passion economy.

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#12 : The workforce of the future is not going to be working 9-5 (and 2020 definitely was an inflection point). It might also not be humans at all. What will be some of the larger trends that will evolve, giving rise to opportunities?

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#13 : As we move towards a large-scale consumer model, what are some of the infrastructure gaps that need to be addressed, for consumer services to scale elegantly? Note: Each of them is an opportunity.

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#14 : Our parents are getting older. But as the youngest nation on each, we are also driven by global ambitions, which often takes us away from home to chase our careers. Who will take care of our parents, in this nuclear family world?

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#15 : Time and time again I come across equipment - be it components or devices, where I wish there was better software driving the underlying hardware. There might be wide-open opportunities to build 3rd party software for existing hardware/components.

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#16 : In order for a skill to take root, we need to be able to see the outcome pan out over iterations. In real life, that can be quite expensive and time-consuming. How about games?

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#17 : The food we eat early on, the taste buds we nurture, and the palate that we develop define familiarity. There are a whole bunch of Asian Flavors that haven't been unlocked yet.

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#18 : One of the biggest tides that is rising in a country like India is the push to become competitive and self-sufficient when it comes to our defense needs. What are the startup opportunities?

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#19 : With a population that is young, cosmetics and the skincare segment is one that is a goldmine. What are the overlooked opportunities when it comes to this space?

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#20 : We are adopting a lifestyle where we are increasingly migrating to cities, chasing careers, marrying late, and adopting pets. What are some of the opportunities that come with this trend?

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#21 : First-time entrepreneurs think product. Second-time entrepreneurs think distribution. The easiest way to get into the product business would be to build plugins for existing tools, extending functionality. Here's an explainer.

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#22 : Climate change is real and we need alternatives for many of the materials that we use at the moment - like cotton. But what are the alternatives. There are several proven materials that just haven't scaled yet.

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#23 : If you are an entrepreneur that is looking for ideas, one place to look at is the graveyard of startups. Is there an idea that is relevant today, but was perhaps ahead of its time? a framework to identify ones worth rebooting.

blackbook.thestartupcentre.com/ideas-reviving…

#24 : We have a unique problem in this country at the moment where we have overflowing granaries - and grain production that is yet to be procured. What are some of the opportunities with excess grains? Here are some ideas.

blackbook.thestartupcentre.com/granary/

#25 : Voice recognition has come of age. It has the potential to unlock the emerging markets and create a value burst, just as much as smartphones with touch screens changed everything. Here are some ideas leveraging voice-enabled devices.

blackbook.thestartupcentre.com/ideas-the-kill…

#26 : While the world is going gaga over NFTs, there is a category of art that is yet to find mainstream acknowledgement - that is living art.

In Japan, a koi was sold for 2.2mn$. That + NFT = 💵💵💵

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#27 : The world consumes three times more honey than it produces. That should make any of us wonder where the other 2/3rd was coming from. Thats the adulteration level!

Most beekeepers in US don't make their money from honey though.

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#28 : There is massive amounts of capital that is moving into private markets. But none of the ecosystem that makes up the public market exists for that market.

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#29 : There are an increasing number of newletters that have emerged, but how do you find the ones you really want to subscribe to?

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#30 : We have tools to screen calls that we are getting from telecallers. The dawn of mobile phones has meant all of us are reachable any time of the day, even if we are in the middle of work. Imagine if the calls we got, had context.

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#31 : Mature markets tend to be homogenous. Whereas emerging markets like India are fragmented and there is a case for regional app stores as a way of onboarding the demographic with better experience (else we wont get critical app adoption).

blackbook.thestartupcentre.com/ideas-regional…

#32 : We are starting to see almost every channel come up with an OTT app to leverage their content. I explain with numbers why the current OTT model doesn't work. That opens up an opportunity.

blackbook.thestartupcentre.com/ad-network/

#33 : Now that software is done eating the world, it is going for dessert. Vertical SaaS is the next wave.

blackbook.thestartupcentre.com/vertical-saas/

#34 : We have to, at some point, evolve from food as a transaction / rote, to food being an experience. It is when that happens that we will start to see bold experiments and evolution of local cuisines.

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#35 : Powerpoints are the digital versions of the storyboards that admen used to pitch their ideas. In today's era, especially with going remote and ideas becoming more complex we need better tools with more layers. I explain more.

blackbook.thestartupcentre.com/powerpoints/

#36 : We live longer now. But what do we do with that extra time now? This is more and more a problem.

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#37 : We built search engines that could help us find content and match intent. We now need the same for people, skillsets, availability and intent.

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#38 : Inheritance is not just the assets that is passed down. It is also the name we carry and the story behind it. In a digital era (fast and cheap) are we preserving the moments and stories?

blackbook.thestartupcentre.com/capturing-life…