Pigeonly (improved inmate to outside world communication) strikes me as interesting. It's not very sexy but I think it's a somewhat interesting problem domain (and sadly a growth market) where connections/talking to people/understanding the market can give you a pretty hard to immitate advantage.
Doesn't seem very hard technically but pretty hard non-technically.
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Pigeonly (improved inmate to outside world communication) strikes me as interesting. It's not very sexy but I think it's a somewhat interesting problem domain (and sadly a growth market) where connections/talking to people/understanding the market can give you a pretty hard to immitate advantage. Doesn't seem very hard technically but pretty hard non-technically.
This guy's story is great, too. Former inmate, was at $3M+ ARR as of Dec 2014: http://www.crewlab.net/pigeonly/
There was an episode of Planet Money earlier this month talking about Pigeonly: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/03/13/392862778/episode-...
The one thing that bumped me was their API for selling customer/prisoner data. I'd like to better understand what their plan is there.