25 Startup Ideas for 2012
<i>NOTE: the following is a joke.  or is it.  Read to the end and decide for yourself.</i><p>As a VC, I would never fund any of these.  How about these twenty-five ideas for starters.<p>1.  Combine local and real-time. (Google isn't)<p>2.  Combine the cloud with viral marketing (Amazon isn't)<p>3.  Disrupt green with crowd-sourcing. (Power companies aren't).<p>4.  Curate blogging (the "blogosphere" is so wide it becomes meaningless.  Get the stratosphere of the blogosphere).<p>5.  post-pc disruption.  (Fingerpaint for iPhone - 1 guy, VC-ready company.  needed a mac to develop.  give an Indian with no mac, no pc, nothing BUT an iPhone enough tools to disrupt post-pc)<p>6.  scale photos.  Flickr doesn't.<p>7.  the Google of Facebook.  (G+ is the Facebook of Google.  Where's the Google of facebook?)<p>8.  empower html5.  (Where's the Adobe of HTML 5?)<p>9.  the skype of documents. (Google Docs isn't it)<p>10.  the apple of automobiles.  ("iPod integration"? Give me a 'brake').<p>11.  bring the cloud to ultramobiles.  ("ultrabooks" are a joke, and the cloud is too big.  Find a way to make ultrabooks/macbook airs the macs of iOS)<p>12. the reddit of shopping.  (eBay is not it).<p>13. disrupt ad platforms, virally.  People are sick of signing in and getting information collected (Google starting to suck)<p>14.  one word: Firefox.  (Firefox isn't it).<p>15.  one word: Office.  (Office isn't it).<p>16.  one word: ultramobile.  (MacBook isn't).<p>17.  one word: ultralite mobile.  (iOS isn't it)<p>18.  one word: TechCrunch (TechCrunch isn't it)<p>19.  one word: Banking  (Banking isn't it)<p>20.  one word: Trending (Analytics isn't it)<p>21.  one word: Microblogging (Twitter isn't it)<p>22.  one word: Dating (plenty-of-fish isn't)<p>23.  one word: Family disruption, aka Whores.  (craigslist isn't)<p>24.  one word: disrupt paradigms.  (YC isn't).<p>25.  one word: cloud. (the cloud isn't.)<p>what is this, some kind of a joke?  Can you even tell anymore.  Disrupt this.