Startup Ideas
For technologists the barriers to developing a new product have never been so low. Tools to develop, integrate and distribute software apps are to all intents negligible. Of course, most would recognize that development is often the easy part. The real difficulty lies in building an effective and sustainable marketing and communication strategy and getting the product adopted. The recent headlines of 17 year old British app developer Nick D'Aloisio selling his Summly app to Yahoo! for the tidy sum of $30 million, has lots of young and seasoned developers scratching their heads. After all, if a school kid can do it, why not anybody? Why not me? Paul Graham may have some of the answers. He sold his first company to Yahoo in 1998. He now runs YCombinator a…