Evolution of my startup idea

The initial premise

Around March 2024, I toyed with the idea of building an AI coach for tennis. Why tennis of all sports. Why not golf or badminton or other racket sports.I don’t have an answer to this. I found tennis to be a far more technical sport than badminton or ping pong. Also it felt way harder to learn than any other sport I have played. So I thought I will build out an app that will be a very basic version of a coach. I did some basic market research and found out that there was a play here. Based on the total number of tennis players and enthusiasts this seemed like a 10-100M$ idea at the very least.

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Web3 - My understanding

Distributed everything

Or decentralization, however we term it, one paradigm shift that we are witnessing is the transition to deentralized computing. Predominantly driven by “cryptocurrencies as the antidote to centralized money printing that is supposedly endangering global finance”, school of thought. With that said premise, I tend to think,

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Satisfaction and progress

It is my belief that progress plateaus once you reach a state of satisfaction. Which is why most of the progress on this planet is driven by gree

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People, Markets and Tech

Often, in the startup world I come across this choice paradox that investors seem to face. What is the predmoinant critera that drives our investments. Do we invest in people first or market first or technology first. Sequoia proudly invests in markets first and A16Z prodouly invests in people/team. So what has driven the most tectonic shifts in technology in this century ?

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My ramblings

This is just a place for my ramblings, acciedntal discoveries and crap that goes on in my day to day life.

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