Author here so I will respond to some of your points. The most important thing about this list is that it is a checklist where the aim is to develop ideas that tick as many as possible off the list, not every one. It is impossible (well near impossible) to have an idea that ticks every one of them - just getting 7 or 8 makes the idea a fantastically good idea.<p>Ideas that can be bootstrapped can affect the world. They might take a little more time, or be a little more limited in scope, but having external funding is not a prerequisite for changing the world.<p>Of course you can exploit first mover advantage and natural monopolies without external funding. You just need an idea that is cheap enough and profitable enough that it can be bootstrapped. Of course finding such ideas is really, really hard, but if you do find one it is very valuable.