Don't you think "take over the internet" is a bit much? On 10/28/15, Steve Richfield <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been learning a LOT while looking for funding - which suggests we > should all rethink our respective directions. > > The Jobs 2012 act made it possible to crowdfund projects not exceeding $10M > without going through the whole SEC public offering hassle. Then along came > sites like Kickstarter with their own visions for the future which does NOT > include larger visions like those shared here. However, there are places > like EquityNet in which larger ideas appear fundable, provided they don't > bump up against $10M. > > When you look at ENTIRE projects including marketing, patent defense, etc., > rather than just getting to a demo, $10M is really tight no matter what you > are doing, especially if it involves any R&D. My own project to take over > the Internet projected $10M when everything foreseeable was added in. > > So, I had an idea for an end-around where many of us here could get rich - > and be well paid as we get rich. Further, this will provide a stepping > stone to even bigger things - maybe even an eventual AGI. Chop my project > up into the separately marketable pieces needed to make the system to take > over the Internet, and construct them in separately funded corporations > under a single umbrella. This way, each startup would be going into this > with guaranteed customers, etc. The separate startups would include: > > 1. The core parsing and recognition technology > 2. A smart web crawler that also gathers contact information, etc. > 3. An idiom database with a few thousand common idioms and equivalent > straightforward text > 4. A medical database ala DrEliza only greatly extended > 5. An AI marketing organization > 6. An Internet sales organization > 7. etc. > > Note that these pieces can be combined in various ways to make several > strong products, e.g. NO ONE is going to write good code to understand text > without the idiom database - and nothing like it now exists. > You can see the publicly-disclosed parts of the plan by reading the patent > at: > > http://www.google.com/patents/US8788263 > > Also, there are other subsequent applications now in the "mill". > > To make this work for you, we would work together to create a crowdfundable > entity that you would be in charge of, to actually get paid well to do the > work on the part of this project that you choose. These would be presented > together as a package, but each would also have a marketing plan to survive > and thrive outside of the package. This way, you would start with a salary > and customers waiting, rather than building something for nothing, in the > hope that customers will come, and further, there would have patent > protection for at least some parts of these projects. > > Once you get your part up and running, you will have both money and > credibility to build your own projects, rather than pieces of something > else. > > Any interest in leading the charge to develop one of these pieces? > > Steve > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/11943661-d9279dae > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com >
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