Timing is everything. Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Google came around at the right time with the ability to execute. It has been said that they weren't the first to come up with the idea of Search, but they were there at the right time with the right abilities to get search going on its world-changing path.
Here are some business plans (probably not Googles) that are waiting for the technology or economics (or some other factor) to be ready to really roll. In future posts I plan to describe what they are and what's holding them up. I have learned a lot about each by researching them and preparing what I call a "Back of the Envelope Business Plan." I'll describe that in a future post as well. Vote on the ones below that interest you and I will post a more detailed explanation of each and what I have learned about the idea and the relevant industry.
1. 3D scanning company roll up. Because the 3D scanning industry largely lacks a company with a nationwide footprint, I proposed to do a roll-up of key players to combine their differing strengths and talents and consolidate their modeling efforts to make a stronger, farther-reaching scanning services provider. See why that hasn't worked to date.
2. Novel Films, or Book to Film. This is the project that most of my friends point to to suggest that I am smoking crack. It's a combination of using natural language processing, automated avatar generation, machine learning, text to speech, etc. to take a book (or a play, or a script) and turn it into a movie.
3. Inventory on Demand. Use traditional subtractive manufacturing techniques in combination with 3D printing in order to meet the out year inventory requirements of manufacturers.
4. 3d Photography Service. Just add a single D to the current 2D product photographer's tool chest.
5. The Hyperloop Transport System. Elon Musk's interesting and high speed alternative to long distance travel.
6. 3D Getty Images. Forgot my name for this one. Create the world's largest vault of 3D images, which will increasingly be needed to fill the demand as computers (and VR/AR devices) inevitably move from 2D to 3D. Some are started down this road already.
7. Simpler CAD. Teach IBM's Watson CAD drawing and then have Watson act like a police sketch artist to pull the idea from the user's mind into a 3D CAD drawing. The system will have as its basic approach a "take and tweak" methodology -- it will take templates that exist as a 3D "digital analogue" and tweak them to conform them to the user's concept, using natural language processing and machine learning. Simple!
8. Orthodontic 3DP for IAT and IDB. Alphabet soup time! This will be a look at using 3D printing for what I like to call incremental alignment therapy and indirect bonding. It can be a cheaper approach for orthodontists to do basic orthodontic work.
9. Real Reality Capture. Reality capture for bringing photorealistic environments into a game engine.
Here are some business plans (probably not Googles) that are waiting for the technology or economics (or some other factor) to be ready to really roll. In future posts I plan to describe what they are and what's holding them up. I have learned a lot about each by researching them and preparing what I call a "Back of the Envelope Business Plan." I'll describe that in a future post as well. Vote on the ones below that interest you and I will post a more detailed explanation of each and what I have learned about the idea and the relevant industry.
1. 3D scanning company roll up. Because the 3D scanning industry largely lacks a company with a nationwide footprint, I proposed to do a roll-up of key players to combine their differing strengths and talents and consolidate their modeling efforts to make a stronger, farther-reaching scanning services provider. See why that hasn't worked to date.
2. Novel Films, or Book to Film. This is the project that most of my friends point to to suggest that I am smoking crack. It's a combination of using natural language processing, automated avatar generation, machine learning, text to speech, etc. to take a book (or a play, or a script) and turn it into a movie.
3. Inventory on Demand. Use traditional subtractive manufacturing techniques in combination with 3D printing in order to meet the out year inventory requirements of manufacturers.
4. 3d Photography Service. Just add a single D to the current 2D product photographer's tool chest.
5. The Hyperloop Transport System. Elon Musk's interesting and high speed alternative to long distance travel.
6. 3D Getty Images. Forgot my name for this one. Create the world's largest vault of 3D images, which will increasingly be needed to fill the demand as computers (and VR/AR devices) inevitably move from 2D to 3D. Some are started down this road already.
7. Simpler CAD. Teach IBM's Watson CAD drawing and then have Watson act like a police sketch artist to pull the idea from the user's mind into a 3D CAD drawing. The system will have as its basic approach a "take and tweak" methodology -- it will take templates that exist as a 3D "digital analogue" and tweak them to conform them to the user's concept, using natural language processing and machine learning. Simple!
8. Orthodontic 3DP for IAT and IDB. Alphabet soup time! This will be a look at using 3D printing for what I like to call incremental alignment therapy and indirect bonding. It can be a cheaper approach for orthodontists to do basic orthodontic work.
9. Real Reality Capture. Reality capture for bringing photorealistic environments into a game engine.