(10/23) If Wikipedia & GitHub had a baby

Welcome to the 12th edition of the Geeks Of The Valley (GOTV) Newsletter where we share our written memo on startups that have yet to raise any funding or announce it publicly, new startup ideas from some of the most original minds in tech and VC, and also episode of the week from our own GOTV podcast!

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🏢 Logseq

👥 Team

• An Vu: Previously engineering @ NASA Jet Propulsion Lab.

The Sparks ✨

• Everything is interconnected.

  Human brains work non-linearly, as we shift from an idea to another. However, in most note-taking software, your data is organized in a hierarchy. In Logseq, each note has connections to others, but none of them dwell within another note or notebook.

• All-in-one workspace for your thinking and learning.

  Many tools make the mistake of focusing on just one aspect of the learning, thinking, and collaborating triad. This could help them narrow down their product focus, but lose the whole sense of the core -- everything “is” interconnected. This is what Logseq is trying to fix.

💡Startup Ideas

1. Kevin Esherick, Founder @ Enlighten.

   Kevin Esherick 🧘‍♂️🧪 @kev_esh

   Exploring + building around two startup ideas right now Wonder 🧪: A platform for creating, tracking, and sharing personal experiments Idyll🧘‍♂️: Strava for meditation (kinda) Please reach out if you or anyone you know is interested as a user, cofounder, etc. RTs appreciated 📢

2. Dryden, Founder @ Praxis Society

   Dryden W.T. Brown @drydenwtbrown

   Let’s fund the construction of giant monuments with NFT sales of the concept art / building plans. The Monument Fund. Could probably make contributions tax deductible. Who’s down?

   

3. Fahd Ananta, Product lead @ Snap.

   Fahd Ananta @fahdananta

   Idea: - A Chrome extension on the default google calendar - Drag and select a few time slots - Convert it into text "Here are some times I'm free A, B, C" - Copy to clipboard - Recipient can click time to book it

💡 Episode Of The Week

Danielle is a cofounder and general partner of 1517. She has worked with young entrepreneurs for about a decade. In 2010, during the founding of the Thiel Fellowship, Danielle joined to lead the design and operations. She’s worked with some of the most prestigious founders like Vitalik Buterin and Ritesh Agarwal.

Previous to her work with Peter Thiel, Danielle founded and directed Innovations Academy in San Diego, a K-8 charter school serving 400 students, with a focus on student-led project-based learning and other alternative programs.

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