A list of startup ideas Y Com­bi­na­tor would like to fund:

  1. A cure for the dis­ease of which the RIAA is a symptom
  2. Sim­pli­fied browsing
  3. More vari­ants of CRM
  4. Web Office apps
  5. Online learn­ing
  6. Tools for measurement
  7. A form of search that depends on design
  8. New pay­ment methods
  9. A web-based Excel/database hybrid
  10. A buffer against bad cus­tomer service
  11. Hardware/software hybrids
  12. Fix­ing email overload
  13. Easy site builders for spe­cific markets

This is only part of the list, and the full page goes into much more depth.

[…] when you read the list, you get a pretty accu­rate com­pos­ite por­trait of a startup: a com­bi­na­tion of relent­less preda­tor upon the obso­lete and benev­o­lent solver of the world’s prob­lems. As ways of mak­ing money go, that’s pretty good. Star­tups are often ruth­less com­peti­tors, but they’re com­pet­ing in a game won by mak­ing what peo­ple want.