Y Combinator, a US seed-stage venture firm founded by Jessica Livingston and Paul Graham, has issued a list of 30 ideas which according to their gut-feeling would make terrific start-ups. Ventures they might fund and add to their list of 102 funded startups.

These are some of the ideas:

Simplified browsing. There are a lot of cases where you'd trade some of the power of a web browser for greater simplicity. Grandparents and small children don't want the full web; they want to communicate and share pictures and look things up.
Something your company needs that doesn't exist. Many of the best startups happened when someone needed something in their work, found it didn't exist, and quit to build it.
This is vaguer than most of the other recipes here, but it may be the most valuable. So if you're working for a big company and you want to strike out on your own, here's a recipe for an idea. Start this sentence: "We'd pay a lot if someone would just build a ..." Whatever you say next is probably a good product idea.
A web-based Excel/database hybrid. People often use Excel as a lightweight database. I suspect there's an opportunity to create the program such users wish existed, and that there are new things you could do if it were web-based. Don't make it feel like a database. That frightens people.
Fixing email overload. A lot of people feel they get too much email. A solution would find a ready market. But the best solution may not be anything as obvious as a new mail reader.
They also suggest to start a company with New news and to start a company for startups, claiming that the newspapers are in trouble and the increasing number of start-ups are in themselves an opportunity for start-ups.

We at thenextwomen, with our business- and startup news about women feel that these suggestions are addressed to us..