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Agreed.. people starting using Google before AdSense existed.

This is an interesting take on (b) overlooked problems:

A few years ago, Gary Hamel and colleagues analyzed more than a hundred cases of business innovation to learn why some individuals, at certain points in time, are able to see opportunities that are invisible to everyone else. They learned that you need to pay close attention to four things that usually go unnoticed:

1. Unchallenged orthodoxies—the widely held industry beliefs that blind incumbents to new opportunities.

2. Underleveraged competencies—the “invisible” assets and competencies, locked up in moribund businesses, that can be repurposed as new growth platforms.

3. Underappreciated trends—the nascent discontinuities that can be harnessed to reinvigorate old business models and create new ones.

4. Unarticulated needs—the frustrations and inconveniences that customers take for granted, and industry stalwarts have thus far failed to address.

original @ http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/hamel/2008/01/innovation_ha...)

What do you mean? I think he means he _doesn't_ want to be employed.

Skip (mt) all together -- I've used (gs) and (dv) for clients; both were complete trash. Their support department is basically a collection of KnowledgeBase articles; if you require assistance beyond those articles, they won't support you. The best thing for any web start-up is to avoid these hosting packages that rely heavily on Plesk, etc. Invest in a dedicated (non-virtual) server.

BASc in EE from University of Toronto; immediately followed with my first start-up