Organic Startup Ideas
I think I'll have to disagree.<p>Organic Startups have one huge advantage: They're significantly easier to build.<p>Organic Startups have one huge disadvantage: They're significantly easier to build.<p>The space for people-like-me startups is severely crowded due to an over-abundance of people scratching their own itch. On the other hand, markets that are the diametric opposite of silicon-valley-tech are ripe for the picking by any halfway competent team. Look at Club Penguin, acquired for $700M, all because they focused an "unsexy" niche.<p>The second type of startup is harder to build but it's not <i>that</i> much harder to build. More importantly, it's variably harder to build.<p>Some people are going to be naturals at it and not see what the big fuss is all about. Others will never have the necessary social intelligence. But the vast, <i>vast</i> majority of people will suck at it to begin with but then get better the more they try.<p>I've always been a big proponent of taking the road less taken. While every other uber-hacker is learning erlang & haskell, why not learn how to become better at designing for people who are not yourself?