The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform
Mon, 22 Jul 2024
Join us for an engaging conversation with Ben Rubin, Co-Founder and CEO of Here Not There Labs, as we explore a wide range of startup ideas and business opportunities1) Dating app with on-chain reputation:• Track user behavior (response time, follow-through on dates)• Use data to predict compatibility• Reward good actors, discourage bad behavior2) Luxury watch marketplace:• Use RFID & blockchain to verify authenticity• Create NFTs tied to physical watches• Enable trusted P2P transactions• Build exclusive communities for watch enthusiasts3) Tutoring/coaching platform:• Match students with teachers based on "fit" not just reputation• Track engagement & retention to measure success• Create efficient markets for educationWant more free ideas? I collect the best ideas from the pod and give them to you for free in a database. Most of them cost $0 to start (my fav)Get access: gregisenberg.com/30startupideas🚀 My FREE 5 day email course to learn how to build a business of the future using the ACP funnel:https://www.communityempire.co/free-course🎯 To build your own portfolio businesses powered by community you might enjoy my membership.You'll get my full course with all my secrets on building businesses, peer-groups to keep you accountable, business ideas every single month and more!Spots are limited.https://www.communityempire.co/📬 Join my free newsletter to get weekly startup insights for free:https://www.gregisenberg.com70,000+ people are already subscribed.FIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenbergInstagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/FIND BEN ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://x.com/benrbnLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rubinben/To improve your rankings your business on Google and using AI for SEO, sign up toboringmarketing.comEpisode Timestamps:0:00 Intro02:32 Crypto and Blockchain’s value proposition12:53 Startup Idea 1: Dating app with on-chain reputation27:28 Startup Idea 2: Luxury watch marketplace46:10 Startup Idea 3: Tutoring/coaching platform
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Crypto not crypto, blockchain is a fantastic solution to the idea of how do you enumerate value on the internet and trust for it in a way that is, just by science, trustworthy. And I think that ultimately benefits the receiver of the value that you're creating online and you. in an open market that people can in transparent way acknowledge each other's value and trust.
And that's the layer that we're missing on the internet to take it to a place where accrual value by individual is much more transparent and efficient. The products we're getting for people are better because there is accountability because when you make money, you want to make the product better. You want to retain your customers. You want to make sure that they're happy.
You want to make sure that they're coming back. You want to make sure they get a V2 and a V3 and a V4. Why? Because when you do that, you make more money.
I want to summarize our entire conversation in four steps. So this is what I've learned. This is what I've learned from this conversation. How to create a product people want. Okay, so Ben Rubin, live from Soho. Ben is the guy that I call if I have a big idea. He always knows, it feels like he always knows where things are, the direction where things are going.
So if I ever need a gut check, text Ben, hey, I'm thinking about this big idea. What do you think? He's sold a company to Epic Games, House Party. He started Meerkat, which was a...
live streaming it was ig live before ig live was a thing and now he's working in the crypto space and building well we'll talk more about it but he's building kind of community infrastructure for the crypto web um so when when ben talks i listen and he's got a ton of crypto ideas that he came prepared with and i know people some people are listening to this and i would say 93 of our audience
isn't in the crypto world. So their guards are up.
To be honest, I studied architecture school and I still build digital spaces. And I mean, the crypto side of, you're right, I am backed by crypto investors and I hire crypto engineers and we are in the crypto industry, but By all accounts, the job of what we're building is to build intimacy in the internet without making it smaller.
And blockchain is just a technology that we're using to create a set of communities that are permissionless, meaning anyone can join, but they organize around a new type of graph that is trust. And we'll get into this, but I just wanted to jump in and say like, you know, That's true that if it's walk like a duck and it talks like a duck, it's maybe a duck and it quacks like whatever the saying is.
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