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Shout-out to the smallest interesting number [1] and Kolmogorov complexity [2].

How difficult is it to scale the approach, slightly adjusted for ROI [3], like a variation of kickstarter.com?

People with an unfulfilled requirement could announce their willingness to pay for a service. The incentive could be that those early adopters receive shares in the resulting company.

Some people may just take the ideas. Early adopters can punish them by only doing business with companies that handed out shares to early adopters.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_on_investment




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