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| Jul 27, 2016 at 4:23 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | @DanielWagner: Oh, you were talking about investing, rather than starting his own tech startup. I missed that while skimming >.<. Yes, I agree that's a solid plan. It avoids the eggs-in-one-basket problem of a tech startup having the right tech but wrong marketing or whatever that this answer points out. It also takes some money to invest. Maybe get some starting money from existing venture capitalists by proposing your own tech startup? Either swindle the venture capitalists (probably doable without breaking laws), or your own startup actually works and brings in some cash to invest. | |
| Jul 26, 2016 at 16:17 | comment | added | Daniel Wagner | @PeterCordes He may not know the small details, but the broad strokes will be clear to him. Think about what return you would have gotten from early investing in the first few companies to build a car; the first few companies to build a computer; the first few companies to build a cell phone. Of course you won't know which model of car, computer, or cell phone will be the winner, but personal transport, computing, and mobile computing seem like strong bets if I'm going to visit another planet that hasn't developed them yet. (Whereas they were "out-there" tech to investors at some point.) | |
| Jul 26, 2016 at 12:47 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | @DanielWagner: Which tech catches on in the short term depends on the existing society, culture, and technology. The robot can know which future techs are viable / possible, but not which applications / implementations of those techs will work on Earth, or what marketing will work. Of course, the robot might be smart enough to work some of that out, but it's not a given. | |
| Jul 26, 2016 at 6:11 | comment | added | Daniel Wagner | Re: the risk of starting a new market: our hypothetical alien should have a pretty good leg up here. If the technology exists to make him, it's safe to say he's seen which future tech. is going to work and take hold. Just invest in what he already knows is going to be the winning tech based on his analysis of his own homeworld's history. | |
| Jul 25, 2016 at 14:12 | comment | added | Jimmery | this is very almost the answer i was going to make - kudos :) | |
| Jul 23, 2016 at 23:16 | history | answered | RvPr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |