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Cambrian House
cambrianhouse.com · Company blog · on HN since 2007
Cambrian House was a crowdsourcing startup whose blog covered startup ideas, secrecy, and lessons for early founders.
What HN saysHN links it mainly for its post on embarrassment in startups, and one commenter notes the quote was said earlier by Reid Hoffman.
19HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1Cambrian House, Home of Crowdsourcing4 people · 1 points · first shared 2007 · 1 comments on HN
- 2Why being embarrassed is critical to the success of your startup2 people · first shared 2010
- 3I forgot my laptop at home and had the most productive day ever1 people · 15 points · first shared 2007 · 9 comments on HN
- 4Is your idea a winner?1 people · 12 points · first shared 2007 · 3 comments on HN
- 5Flickr and YouTube each dramatically changed their business idea - PG's policy of only asking about an idea out of politeness makes sense...1 people · 8 points · first shared 2007 · 3 comments on HN
- 64 reasons why startup secrecy is overrated1 people · 5 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 7Being Young is a Fault That Improves Daily1 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 8Cambrian House 2.0 Rolled Out1 people · 2 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 9Why CEO Compensation Models Are Broken1 people · 1 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 10Set your customer's hair on fire1 people · 1 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 113 ways to cash out your startup by Reid Hoffman1 people · 1 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 12Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics, hosted by Cambrian House1 people · 1 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 138TIvkTW1 people · first shared 2011
- 14Video1 people · first shared 2008
- 15Idea1 people · first shared 2011
What HN people wrote when they linked it
a5seo · 2011-07-27
The best use for HalfBakery.com in my experience, is as Snopes for Ideas.
If someone guardedly shares their own half-baked idea over dinner (especially if they think they need to find a technical partner, investor, or get a patent), rather than give them a lecture about customer development, I tell them it sounds interesting and send them a link to Half-Bakery or http://www.cambrianhouse.com/idea/.
The hit rate is shockingly high. And even if they don't find their idea, they'll realize ideas are a dime a dozen and start focusing on how to validate whether their idea actually has legs.
edit: there->their
thenbrent · 2010-11-10
Yep, it sure is a great quote, shame he didn't attribute it to Reid Hoffman, who has been saying it since at least 2006: http://www.cambrianhouse.com/blog/startups-entrepreneurship/why-being-…
lauken · 2010-03-18
Here is an example of an attempt.
http://www.cambrianhouse.com/
0_o · 2008-09-10
http://www.cambrianhouse.com/
for those who are interested but lazy
Tichy · 2008-06-25
I don't think that only solving the most basic problems is worthwhile. Like, is it OK to make music? It doesn't help against hunger in the 3rd world, so it is a useless activity? But maybe occasionally some guy who is working on solving the hunger problem finds the strength to go on by listening to your music. Or so I imagine...
Nevertheless sometimes I wish there was something more direct I could do. I just think the original article was a bit short on suggestions.
Hm, that reminds me of an idea of mine, that some people gave me good feedback about. Perhaps some people here like it and want to join in making it? Basically, I envisioned a bug tracker for the whole world: http://www.cambrianhouse.com/idea/idea-promoter/ideas-id/NcJhLLF/ (I suggested this for the StartupWeekend in Hamburg, but unfortunately something else was selected...).
yaacovtp · 2007-05-23
Cambrian house google pizza delivery is one of my all time favorites. http://www.cambrianhouse.com/google/
jward · 2007-04-22
You might also want to look into Cambrian House.
http://www.cambrianhouse.com/
timcraft · 2011-09-09
gmichnikov · 2011-04-29
I remember coming across the idea of crowdsourced shipping before; google around and you might get some more thoughts (e.g. http://www.cambrianhouse.com/idea/idea-promoter/ideas-id/8TIvkTW/)
rrival · 2008-02-28
Connected Ventures : http://www.vimeo.com/173714
And Cambrian House has some good ones: http://www.cambrianhouse.com/video/
xirium · 2008-02-12
The RenderJuice virtual render farm ( http://www.cambrianhouse.com/idea/idea-promoter/ideas-id/VlD2zl1/) is a very good idea. I was discussing this scenario a few days ago and the current barrier is the rendering software. Open source rendering software is improving and could make a virtual render farm viable within 15 months.
scrollinondubs · 2007-08-08
not a reality TV show but i've put several of the ideas I don't have time to pursue up on Cambrian House->
http://www.cambrianhouse.com/member/scrollinondubs/
I've taken 2nd in a couple of their Ideawarz tournaments but have not won yet. They had the Dragons' Den guy (Sean Wise) join their board not long ago.
sean