The direction of VC investment in Silicon Valley

U.S. venture capital Agency Y Combinator partner, a well-known angel investor Paul Graham, the first to reveal the idea of Y Combinator willing to invest. His views may represent a general view of Silicon Valley's venture-investment institutions.

Ways to resolve copyright disputes

The music copyright lawsuit brought by Sony and Universal not only creates obstacles to the development of file-sharing software, but also destroys its own business model. The present situation is by no means the final solution. In addition to music, the film industry will face similar problems in the future.

Simplified browsing

In many cases, users want extremely simplified Internet browsing. Digital photo frame and Firefox browser embodies this idea, then whether there are similar ideas in the future?

New News

The internet has dramatically changed news, PerezHilton and TechCrunch represent a trend in the future of journalism, while Reddit and Digg are the other. This area has just begun.

Enterprise IT Outsourcing

IT departments are expensive bottlenecks in most enterprises. There are many other tasks that the enterprise IT department needs to complete, and the outsourcing of these jobs will bring huge business opportunities.

Enterprise Software 2.0

Many of the software vendors currently selling are bad, but expensive. However, the software industry is always changing. Startups can start by writing software for small companies.

More CRM Software

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is one of the most commonly used software in the enterprise, and there is still potential to be dug in this field.

Areas that some enterprises need but have not yet developed

The most successful startups can always see areas where demand exists but not yet developed. This suggestion may be the most vague, but it is the most valuable.

Friends

Dating sites have not yet developed to the end. This kind of entrepreneurial enterprise needs to solve: whether to have different ways to make friends, how to solve all dating sites are facing the "first chicken or egg" problem, that is how to popularize.

Picture/video Sharing

The picture/video sharing service may be divided into 30 or so child services, about half of which are yet to be developed.

Online Auctions

The potential for online auctions is greater than many people think. If the market has new entrants, the situation is expected to be much better than it is now.

Network Office applications

We are interested in investing in any start-up company that wants to compete with Microsoft's desktop software.

Advertising optimization

What we are doing is simply moving the print and TV ads to the Internet. If startups can develop new forms of advertising and effectively measure the effectiveness of advertising, they will succeed.

Online learning

At present, schools and newspapers are monopolized in a certain area. How to get children to learn through the Internet? The answer is not simply to upload books to the web. The exam preparation service is now well worth watching.

Better tools for getting data

As more and more Internet equipment, how to obtain some data is very important. If you can get some data accurately, you will be able to solve many big problems.

On-Site electronic security

ADT and other companies in the field of electronic security has been successful. With many companies already online, startups may be able to find new solutions at lower cost, existing hardware and services.

Design a good search engine

Google doesn't have a lot of flaws, but the biggest problem is that the site is not very well designed. If there is a breakthrough in design, then startups are likely to beat Google.

New Payment Methods

The reason why some areas cannot be developed is that they cannot be charged, and many people are unaware of how much the market needs. As a result, the creators of new payment methods will see a bigger market than expected.