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The biggest opportunities right now:
1. build for solving loneliness (the more AI floods everything, the more people crave real human connection, IRL and small social)
2. build for agents that need to spend money (they're getting virtual cards and budgets, someone builds the spend controls, fraud protection, receipts)
3. build for people drowning in AI output (everyone generates infinite drafts now, the bottleneck moved to reviewing and choosing, build the judgment layer)
4. build for the burnout economy (everyone is expected to always be on and always optimizing, and the backlash toward rest, slowness, and enough is building)
5. build for verifying humans (deepfakes broke trust, every dating app, marketplace, and video call needs proof-of-human within 2 years)
6. build for the physical world (the trades, hardware, robots that AI is finally reaching)
7. build for the agent that answers the phone (every local business misses calls after 5pm, a voice agent that books the job is worth thousands a month)
8. build for the aging (70M+ boomers who want to stay healthy, sharp, and connected)
9. build for the LLM-search land grab (being the cited answer is the new SEO)
10. build for the newly automated (the paralegal, the analyst, the marketer whose job just changed and needs to reskill fast)
11. build for the seat-pricing collapse (software repricing from $50/seat to per-outcome, whoever nails outcome billing wins a category)
12. build for AI enablement (95% of businesses use nothing beyond ChatGPT, someone has to onboard the other 95%)
13. build for the agency everyone resents (businesses pay $1k/mo to agencies they hate, an agent that does 80% of it undercuts the model)
14. build for verticals on 2011 software (dentists, HOAs, contractors, all overdue for an AI-native rebuild)
15. build for reviving dead software (thousands of abandoned apps with real users, agents can maintain what a team couldn't, buy and revive)
16. build for markets too small to matter before (500 lobster fishermen was never worth a team, now it's a weekend and a real business)
17. build for agents hiring agents (a shadow economy is forming, it needs escrow, reputation, and dispute resolution for machines)
18. build for the anti-AI premium (as everything gets generated, human-made and analog become status symbols people pay up for)
19. build for distribution-first (anyone can build the product now, so the audience is the moat, media company first, product second)
20. build for the reinvention of college (what does an MBA even mean anymore)
21. build for a world with more free time than it knows what to do with (if AI takes the busywork, the question becomes what people do with the hours, and that's a civilization sized market)
note: more trends/ideas @ideabrowser (free to sign up)
22. build for the return to the physical (screens fill with slop, people crave the real world, the hands-on, the local, the analog)
23. build for the caregiving wave. The population is aging fast, tens of millions are caring for parents, and the whole burden is landing on families with no support.
24. build for the longevity shift (people want to live to 100 healthy, and a whole industry is forming around actively managing your own biology)
25. build for the housing and rootlessness problem (people can't afford to settle down, and the whole idea of a stable home base is up for grabs)
26. build for spiritual hunger (as institutions hollow out, the need for meaning, ritual, and belonging is exploding into new forms)
KEEP BUILDING
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gm gang!!! ☀️ the temptation to quit is usually the greatest right before you're about to wildly succeed... if you're feeling that way right now, keep going. you got this. YOU GOT THIS! LFG!!! 🚀
Let’s goooo @TheMiamiGuide
Excited to hear @alyxvandervorm talk about our fast growing Miami communities & events on @TheMiamiGuide later today!! 🌴 ☀️
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gm gang!!! ☀️ be curious every day. Like a 5 year old… explore, question, imagine, ask why, ask why again, jump in the puddle, go through the other door… Curiosity is one of the most common traits of uncommonly successful people! Let me know what you learn today 😊
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Your job as CEO of a startup is to hire people who have successfully done what you’re looking to accomplish. – at San Mateo, CA
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Founders, when VC’s ask, “Why can’t Google or Amazon build this?” an answer could be…
Summer Fridays
Your hustle on days like today will define your startup.
Phew! @rabois compiled a list of all IRL startups from your thread and the ones I am aware of.
feel free to add more here
docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
@dens @azmainabrer @Migueldickenso @kneubuehl @alyxvandervorm @HeratyIan @locals_org
we should collaborate!
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How many female founders can you think of who raised a large, frothy round in 2021 based on very little traction?
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One of my favorite marketing strategies for startups is to give a lot free value to customers first then ask to pay when you’ve earned their trust. – at San Mateo, CA
Excited to be here :) #eMergeAmericas So awestruck by the action-packed line-up ahead, thank you @melmedina305!
GM @eMergeAmericas — DAY 1 let’s go!! 🙌🏻 amazing atmosphere already…
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The #MiamiTechMonth community on @clyxapp is bringing #eMergeAmericas attendees exclusive access to social events - dinners, parties & more across #Miami. Access all the social events, see who's attending & join the convo via ‘MTM Socials’ on Clyx: bit.ly/3EayicB
Clyx App is the official social calendar for #MiamiTechMonth
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Per @crunchbase, the @CityofMiami is on pace to set a new record for VC investment. $1.03B has been raised thus far in 2022. If including Greater-Miami, that number balloons to $1.43B. #capitalofcapital
@FrancisSuarez @ErickGavin7 @Kevin_A_Ruiz
news.crunchbase.com/news/mia…
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I bet on people over anything else. Some people I will blindly double down on are @chrisadamo_ @alyxvandervorm @GianniDalerta @magdalenakala @saif305 @MichelleAbbs and everyone in @jpegmorganxyz Get to know them and grab yourself a ticket to the moon! 🚀 #jpegrunsmiami
Love to see @clyxapp connecting #MiamiTech — thank you @MiamiNFTweek and can’t wait for @eMergeAmericas!!
Thanks to @clyxapp helping me find all the happy hours / party events after @miaminftweek conference this past weekend! Had a dope weekend and met tons of great people #nftweek 🙏💪👍
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Frens! Excited for Day 3?!
We’re gonna be taking questions with speakers, discussions & after parties all on our @clyxapp app community -
Join to be notified! share.clyx.app/agcHZkBPLob
#MiamiTech #MiamiNFTWeek
3 minutes to go Frens….
$1000 giveaway!! Head to Solads Gameverse booth @fartsofposeidon — first blockchain board game on the Solana board game!! @MiamiNFTweek Get info at share.clyx.app/i2WWTdyOVob

















