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Startup Ideas We Want to Fund

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In 'Startup Ideas We Want to Fund', Hsu Ken talks about startup ideas and trends worth exploring in 2021. Hopefully, this will (1) encourage founders working on these ideas to apply to Iterative and (2) help people get started on ideas we think are interesting.

Topics discussed in this episode:

  • 00:00 Introductions
  • 00:50 Inspiration behind Hsu Ken's "Request for Startups"
  • 01:55 Anti-status quo as inspiration
  • 02:55 1) Allow Anyone to Sell Anything
  • 06:40 a) Easy logistics
  • 10:09 b) AirBnB for food
  • 15:08 2) The Financial System is Painfully Outdated
  • 20:08 a) Crypto finance
  • 28:35 3) Digitise Everything
  • 30:10 a) Online pharmacies
  • 34:24 4) Celebrity culture
  • 41:23 Covid-19 as an accelerator
  • 42:52 Covid-19 as a decelerator?
  • 44:05 Irrelevant food section

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About Iterative Iterative is a YC style accelerator focused exclusively on Southeast Asia by the founders of Divvy (a16z, GIC), Weave (YCS14), Decide (acquired by eBay) who have collectively raised $100M+ in VC. Iterative invests US $150K into early stage startups twice a year then works with them intensely for 3 months culminating in a Demo Day.

Find out more about Iterative: https://iterative.vc

About the Speaker Hsu Ken Ooi | Founder and General Partner at Iterative | https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsukenooi

Hsu Ken was previously the Chief Product Officer of Workmate, an on-demand blue collar staffing platform in Southeast Asia. In 2014, he was VP of Product at Weave (YCS14). In 2009, he started Decide, an early machine learning company that predicted the future price of consumer goods. It was acquired by eBay in 2013. Hsu Ken has a BS in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Washington.

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