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I am very close to donating! This describes exactly how I feel about the Silicon Valley publicized on HN. Surely there are plenty of start-ups solving real problems, hard problems -- what can we do to make sure those make the front-page more often? I guess all of the Instagrams getting acquired for hundreds of millions doesn't help.

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A good start would be to name some of them in posts like this -- both those that are being solved and those that should be solved.

Hmm,

Small business gets reamed on store fixtures and any sort of furniture.

Creating a market for piece work (people working at home doing small assembly / sewing / Etc functions) with folks who want to do small production runs.

Fasteners on demand, making the kinds of fasteners you want how you want them right now in reasonable quantities.

Inventory management for one/two person shops.

Phone customer support on demand.

Essential network service (DNS/Email/Web/File/Fax/Media) for small businesses. (I did this once before but its becoming more relevant, could be a 'software only' solution these days)

Not startups, but SIAI and FHI are solving the "make sure we'll be around in 100 years" problem.

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