1/If you are using software to go after a legacy physical vertical, we are most excited if you do it "full stack". http://www.cdixon.org/2014/03/15/full-stack-startups …- 3/Here is a video of our robotic genome factory: http://www.technologyreview.com/video/521121/innovators-under-35-balaji-srinivasan-cofounder-counsyl … Also: insurance coverage, clearances, clinical integration...
- 7/Need to build a site of the scale of http://Amazon.com - and encounter all the problems - before you could do http://aws.amazon.com .
- 9/More examples of full stack startups.. Education: http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/18/former-googlers-altschool-raises-33m-from-founders-fund-and-a16z-to-reimagine-primary-education/ … Autos: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimgorzelany/2014/02/27/why-teslas-vertical-manufacturing-move-is-manifest-destiny/ … Hospitality: http://www.fastcompany.com/3027107/punk-meet-rock-airbnb-brian-chesky-chip-conley …
- 11/Second, your control of adjacent layers may eliminate the initial problem you were trying to solve. Analogous to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescoping_series …
- 14/Remember: for many legacy cos, IT = cost center. They only adopted the code. You were born in it, moulded by it. http://youtu.be/F157geaXp_w
- 15/Ex: http://bit.ly/1ddy7hL "Muni commissioned a $3 million audit..after two years..figured out where people were getting on the bus."
- 16/A full stack technology-powered bus service (like @leaptransit, soon to relaunch) can dump that from database for $0 in <1 second.
- 17/First full stack entrant into a given vertical is formidably protean. Morph your product just by hitting keys. Ex: http://www.wired.com/insights/2014/02/teslas-air-fix-best-example-yet-internet-things …
- 21/Email the best. Read blogs, get context. Now you know kung fu, or at least know you need to hire kung fu master. http://youtu.be/6vMO3XmNXe4
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