The Ideas Book

The idea was that I needed a way to capture our “big picture” features as a bubble graph with the size being the priority. Perhaps what this tool is is a multi-dimensional trello board where the size of the bubble can be represented in different dimensions.

So imagine this: I’m using Bubblello to map out the big picture features of our product. I might have things like “MacOS version” and “Collaboration”, and on this dimension I’m modelling the demand (or importance) of the feature. So perhaps the MacOS feature is highly sought after so it’s a big bubble and the Collab not so much. And then I can “flip the cube” sort of thing so that I’m now looking at the same bubbles but from a different aspect: From this angle the size of the bubble represents the complexity (or time) of this task. So the MacOS feature might be small and the Collab big.

The idea is that you can create a bubble chart which you can look at from multiple angles. Perhaps one of the dimensions is a Trello like interface where you can categorise them into lists….

The idea here is that the DCEO app is capturing sales, revenue, expenditure, any NDAs and agreements are filed etc, and a we provide a dashboard and chatbot such that an investor can ask questions of a company. “What does growth look like?” -> hockey stick graph of sales over time… “What about churn?” -> add churn to the graph…

DCEO allows you to create a company in a chosen jurisdiction (e.g. Delaware, US), and has an opinionated Shareholders Agreement and Company Constitution. From there it allows you to take actions that are allowed via the agreements and the system manages them for you such that it complies with the agreements set out. For instance, you can do share sales digitally, where the system is sending out letters to the various parties (including preemptive rights etc), you are putting in entries for acceptance, number of shares purchased, it’s basically guiding you through the process similar to how an accountant or lawyer would.

This is probably a bit like stripe atlas, but I think stripe atlas just helps you set things up, as opposed to actually helping you do share issues and things like that.

The idea here is to connect those seeking insurance with those seeking a high risk investment opportunity. Here’s how it works. Those who want insurance sign up to the site and they put up their profile. Age, number of accidents, car etc. Then a bunch of punters come along and they stake $100k of their money, and the browse the profiles and bid to insure that person. If they look like they’re a great driver, competing bidders will drive the price low. The insured person pays their (now lowered) premium, which gets distributed to those that have taken on the risk of insuring them (after we’ve taken a cut). In this system you essentially have rich people wanting to make lots of money “gambling” on whether people are good drivers based on their profile. Perhaps we can make it more open to the people by creating syndicates. So you and a bunch of mates can get together, chuck in 10k, and insure some people. It would make roughly 12% per year, but of course you risk losing it all if the driver makes a big claim.