Startup Ideas Going into 2025

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• Crypto meets Web Scraping- A crypto token for web scraping. Pay web scrapers via tokens. The more consumption and demand, the more tokens you accumulate. I think we will see this in some fashion this year. I have seen crypto tokens for leveraging residential IP addresses. This is a similar idea.

• Give to Get Private Markets Data- We need a Pitchbook & Crunchbase competitor. Give to get where VC’s give their deals/term sheets/data and in return get access. This would include funding round details, valuations, debt vs equity, etc. Allow for benchmarks and a whole lot more. Difficult to build, but like many successful Data as a Service companies, the Give to Get model works really well. Markit has achieved this with many datasets. Dataexplorers did this with daily short interest. The playbook to execute this has been written before.

• Demand-Based Data Exchanges- Companies like CarbonArc are offering this. It think we see this go mainstream and become a way for data vendors to monetize further and consumers to consume data when they need it. Pay per gigabyte or similar type consumption models.

• Gambling Trading Exchanges Combined- The ability to place a leveraged $TSLA trade while also doing a 3-game NFL parlay betting on the 49ers & Patriots to win while Baker Mayfield throws for over 400 yards. Gambling and Trading combined in one app is what the younger generation wants. Maybe $HOOD gives it to us, otherwise someone else will!

• Decentralized Expert Network- Expert networks were originally disrupted by the Tegus model. There is an opportunity to remove the middleman, give more of the cash to the experts, and make it easier for end clients to find experts. Connect directly with less friction in the middle. Decentralize this so experts can take calls, answer questions, record answers, and get paid every time someone taps their knowledge. Think of a royalty every time someone taps your knowledge even if that knowledge has been recorded in an audio clip, transcript, or is provided in a summary via an AI Agent.

I share lots of ideas in private conversations and meetings throughout the year, but I am going to put in the effort to share a lot of these ideas in this newsletter. Looking forward to seeing people hopefully execute on these ideas or meet people already working on them.

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