Brilliant Startup ideas I have. Wait till you see #8.

I’m sure VCs and my friends alike will destroy every one of them — you are not solving anyone’s problem, you don’t have a market, someone’s doing this already, this is too capital intensive, this and that. They’d probably be right. These are high-level ideas anyway. My previous start-up failed. We built a communication and scheduling app for afterschool activities to help youth activities communicate better with parents, but didn’t succeed. I think in hindsight the problem was with poor execution, not with not solving a problem. On start-up failure, if you want to read about the sure signs of your or someone’s start-up failing, read my story here.

So

1. A go-to platform for youth activities. A simple concept. A platform that truly connects parents and providers, where parents can find activities by vertical (sports, arts, science), age group, and other characteristics. Currently, whether you’re all set in a place where you live, or just moved to a new state, you still end up finding out a lot through word-of-mouth from other parents. Google has some listings but it’s very fragmented. There is just no place where you can truly see what’s available for both mainstream and niche activities, what exactly they offer. I think this platform should have a strong social element too (getting recommendations from other parents)
2. A platform for arranging services and products for your elderly relatives, whether they live in the same country or thousands of miles away. I have relatives…