This list was making the rounds today proving once again that ideas are cheap and execution is all that matters. 

The folks over at Y Combinator put out 30 “Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund”  Some interesting ones here but nothing really earth shattering.  I will say the point on email (#28) is well taken:

28. Fixing email overload. A lot of people, including me, 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.

Related problem: Using your inbox as a to-do list. The solution is probably to acknowledge this rather than prevent it.

For more on the point above about execution, check out David Thomson’s Blueprint to a Billion that took an empirical look at those companies that really made it and the common characteristics among them yielding the “Seven Essentials for Exponential Growth.” 

Print it out and put it on your wall.