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How can we fix the Market for Solutions?
- -What if we had a “US Department of Experiments” with the power to grant temporary waivers from Federal, State, and City laws — when safe and ethical to do so — for the purposes of learning what policy interventions actually work?
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- How many would-be innovators stay out of the Market for Solutions because the right risk financing doesn’t exist for them?
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- It’s nontrivial to create a new asset class. But it feels like there’s still tons of room for creativity:
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- There’s tons of room for creativity in how we improve distribution:
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sari added 3y ago
- For example, say you’re building a product for a niche market worth “only” $50 million. Who will invest in you? VCs won’t touch you because the math doesn’t work out — they need investments that have a shot at returning the portfolio. Banks won’t touch you because they only know how to underwrite going concerns — businesses with operating history, ... See more
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- What if investors could directly fund product R&D within existing companies, taking risk in exchange for a future share of revenue?
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sari added 3y ago
- What if investors could directly fund product R&D within existing companies, taking risk in exchange for a future share of revenue?
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Joey DeBruin added 2y ago
- -What if companies could submit anonymized data or contracts into “dark pools”, and receive programmatic recommendations for solutions?
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sari added 3y ago
- How many highly-educated, ambitious college grads and FAANG alumni start companies chasing low-value problems, because finding the high-value ones is too hard?
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