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TrumpScientific explores science ideas seeded by US President Donald Trump

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StartupRealities No 82 TrumpScientific is a research company that explores scientific and business ideas based on guidance from US President Donald Trump. The company is currently researching whether injecting disinfectant or exposure to UV light can have positive health effects on mice recovering from a viral infection (as suggested by Donald Trump in April 2020), in the hope that this can lead to human trials at the next stage. TrumpScientific does not have any insider connections to the US President and only uses ideas that the US President has broadcast to the public in his tweets or press conferences. CEO QUOTE "President Trump is much maligned by the mainstream media. However, many of his 'maverick' ideas contain seeds of divergent thinking that, if implemented, may lead to novel businesses or scientific discoveries. The fact that this has not yet happened does not discourage us. Moonshots take time and shooting at the moon is not for the faint-hearted," sa...

MakeTalesMeet enhances story plots with human and AI editors

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StartupRealities No 65 MakeTalesMeet is a professional editing and storytelling company which uses both human editors and artificial intelligence (AI) to fix plot discontinuities and enhance the storyline in articles, books, TV and movie plots. PRODUCT VERSIONS The free basic version is an automated algorithm that quizzes the writer with the aim of teasing out new ideas. Potentially interesting objects or characters in the story are identified by the AI and the writer gets asked questions about them, separately or in pairs of two: " What happened to the penguin and the stone? Could they be doing something else or something differently? Could the two be connected? " The basic version also identifies similar items or stories in the body of existing literature and movies and makes suggestions on creating possible references to these in the writer's plot, which leads to recursion . The premium version of MakeTalesMeet involves human editors who review the suggestions o...

Startup Realities: Real Business Models; Real Science; Hypothetical Startups

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Introduction to Startup Realities At Startup Realities: 1) The business models are real: all production, operation, marketing and finance strategies make commercial sense. 2) The science is real: from proven fundamental science to innovations and scientific discoveries published in the last several days. Any unconfirmed scientific hypotheses are marked as such ("hypothesis yet to be tested") 3) The startups are hypothetical but realistic, or at least feasible. After all, "the value of an idea lies in the using of it", said Thomas Edison. After all, the world is fractal: one thing leads to another and patterns repeat. Watch out for these patterns as they invariably lead to the next startup. Mandelbrot set fractal (Source: Wikipedia )