YC Demo Day Session 2

&gt; Sliced democratizes access to hedge funds. Even though hedge funds have outperformed S&amp;P 500 over the past decade, very few investors have access to them.<p>Hedge Funds on average do not outperform market indices such as S&amp;P 500. I&#x27;m curious as to whether this was TechCrunch&#x27;s take on the problem, or the startup&#x27;s?

Helion seems unreal. I am not ready up to date with fusion research, but as far as I know there was not even a demo or prototype in lab producing energy for a few seconds (or minutes), and they claim to have a product in 6 years. Can someone tell me what I&#x27;ve missed ?

&quot;Death begins in the colon&quot; seems to be attributed to an expert (albeit an old one), but unfortunately the adage is mostly associated with &quot;wellness&quot; practices on Google; it seems to be a shibboleth for things like colonics.

I realize it&#x27;s hard to predict what direction a company will take in the future, but is it YCombinator&#x27;s policy to incubate companies that from the start seem to be competing against each other? It seems to me that ListRunner and Medisas (<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/alextaub/2014/04/24/meet-medisas-the-company-that-saves-peoples-lives/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;alextaub&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;24&#x2F;meet-medisas...</a>) do pretty much exactly the same thing.

uBiome may be onto something. I read a study the other day that said obesity may actually be linked to gut flora, which I found very interesting. Excited to see what comes of this.

Flynn could really make a dent in the PaaS space, although they seem to have a problem communicating their value proposition. I understand it&#x27;s something like an open-source version of Heroku? If they take all the hassle out of deployments (everything that happens between git push and bare metal), I see a <i>lot</i> of Heroku users that are sick and tired of paying outrageous 35$ a month could flock over to them.

I&#x27;m really excited about some of these, but particularly ubiome. It&#x27;s pretty &quot;ew, gross&quot; to think about, but it does seem like an area of medicine and diagnostics which is open for deeper exploration, finally. (disclaimer: I met the team a couple times before in bay area tech contexts and like them)

Love the idea of Fixed, specially if it spills over to healthcare charges.<p>I have observed that hospitals invariably manage to saddle me with ridiculous &quot;processing fees&quot; and suchlike and add around $100 or more to my expected charges every time I visit them. I usually just pay up to avoid the nuisance of dealing with administrators who cannot seem to be able to communicate over email, and possible damage to my credit if I try to challenge it. I strongly suspect this is the case for a lot of middle-class Americans.<p>I&#x27;d gladly pay the same amount to Fixed to act as an intermediary between me and said 70s-era administrators, if only to let them know that someone is looking carefully at their exorbitant charges, and possibly even contesting them.

Uber for bodyguards and uber for lawns. Neat!

Couldn&#x27;t Square or some other &quot;big&quot; player come in and implement payments via bank account and simply put Kash out of business? I know nothing of the domain, but it seems relatively straight forward to do, no? PayPal already let&#x27;s me send money to any individual with an email address (and maybe a PayPal account?), so couldn&#x27;t they just change their fees to 1% flat for businesses tomorrow?<p>What am I missing? Thoughts?

uBiome looks interesting. Has anyone tried them?<p><a href="http://ubiome.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubiome.com&#x2F;</a>

&gt; Sliced democratizes access to hedge funds.<p>To be clear, Sliced is open only to accredited investors and has a minimum investment of $20,000.

Will uBiome run into the same FDA regulatory issues that 23andMe did? If so, I hope they have a great legal team...