The Giant Job Upload

(b) Sneakernet: Amazon doesn’t have things stocked, but Alibaba does. You can’t use the apps you relied on, and acquiring things requires more prowling. We call suppliers in China to get you the things Amazon has out of stock and send them to you.

(c) EasyQA: Stop writing brittle Selenium tests. We’ll manually QA your site for you.

(d) Recruiters: It’s so hard to find a great recruiter, but it feels like it should be very, very easy to train, measure, and quantify this job. I bet you the maître d’ at a recently closed Michelin restaurant would be a fine sherpa of your company’s candidates.

These approaches have been tried unsucccesfully in the past, but things are different now. The world changed more rapidly in the past month than the last half-century. The time to start this company is now. Today. The entire services industry just collapsed, and millions of fresh Internet immigrants are online, twiddling their thumbs, wondering wha... See more

1. Vertical Services

Take the Magic approach, but tailor it to an industry. For example –

(a) Smartbox: Have a trusted agent label all incoming email in your inbox. Even draft replies.