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Ycombinator is a VC firm/Incubator with a special twist, they make micro investments (around $30k) in founders with Ideas. They are fairly new and have had a lot of success so far. With things like computing clouds and Ruby on Rails it has become dirt cheap to get ideas into products with very little money. Starting cheap and running lean has always been my passion and that is why it is so interesting to watch things like Ycombinator.
They have posted a list of 30 ideas they would like to fund. Basically a call out to entrepreneurs that want to work on this stuff. Very smart and here is the list, they explain in more detail each item on their site (Click here).
1. A cure for the disease of which the RIAA is a symptom.
2. Simplified browsing.
3. New news.
4. Outsourced IT.
5. Enterprise software 2.0.
6. More variants of CRM.
7. Something your company needs that doesn’t exist.
8. Dating.
9. Photo/video sharing services.
10. Auctions.
11. Web Office apps.
12. Fix advertising.
13. Online learning.
14. Tools for measurement.
15. Off the shelf security.
16. A form of search that depends on design.
17. New payment methods.
18. The WebOS.
19. Application and/or data hosting.
20. Shopping guides.
21. Finance software for individuals and small businesses.
22. A web-based Excel/database hybrid.
23. More open alternatives to Wikipedia.
24. A buffer against bad customer service.
25. A Craigslist competitor.
26. Better video chat.
27. Hardware/software hybrids.
28. Fixing email overload.
29. Easy site builders for specific markets.
30. Startups for startups.
Thanks to AZspot for the heads up on this info