Organic Startup Ideas
I think I'll have to disagree.Organic Startups have one huge advantage: They're significantly easier to build.Organic Startups have one huge disadvantage: They're significantly easier to build.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.The second type of startup is harder to build but it's not that much harder to build. More importantly, it's variably harder to build.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, vast majority of people will suck at it to begin with but then get better the more they try.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?