The document lists 21 potential startup ideas across a variety of industries including energy, artificial intelligence, robots, biotechnology, healthcare, education, transportation, and telecommunications. It suggests that startups developing new sources of clean energy, advancing artificial intelligence applications, making healthcare more affordable and preventative, and improving education access could be revolutionary. Overall, the document proposes that startups tackling major problems in these industries have strong potential to be highly successful.

1. 21 Start-up Ideas*
That can make you
millionaire
*may or may not contain any real startup ideas

2. 1. Energy – low-cost energy directly
increases the quality of life.
• Generally speaking, anything you can create to
make energy from current energy sources
cheaper will be revolutionary. Same goes for
extracting energy out of new sources. The newer
sources of energy are solar, wind, ethanol
biofuels, biofuels from other sources, like
Jatropha, geothermal, hydrogen, thorium, etc.

3. 2. Artificial intelligence
• This is just as revolutionary as it is
overhyped. For all the talk, there has not
been a practical breakthrough. Perhaps, it
helps to point out there won’t be a single
artificial intelligence machine. Rather
products that will apply A.I. to create
artificial creativity, artificial reasoning,
etc. will be useful.

4. 3. Robots
• Robots are already here in manufacturing
and military uses. There are few consumer
robots yet. As with Garmin GPS, the
breakthrough could come by adopting
military technology for consumer needs
rather than developing robotic hardware
and software from scratch.

5. 4. Biotech
• The ultimate promise of biotech to make us
disease free and forever young, seems to be
almost within reach now. The Human
Genome project is finished. Now it’s a
matter of figuring out how to tweak the
genes. There are moral considerations in
this, too. A startup that addresses either
side of this story would be revolutionary.

6. 5. Healthcare
• In the United States health care is far
too expensive. And not as effective as
it could be. A startup that would make
medical insurance less costly, or better
yet create a preventative healthcare
system is worth funding.

7. 6. Pharmaceuticals
•Drugs should be developed faster,
and less expensively. Preventative
drugs, and drugs that enhance not
patch up human health after the
fact would be worth funding.

8. 7. Food and Water
• Between 1940s and 1960s Norman Borlaug led the Green
Revolution that saved 1 billion people from starvation,
especially after World War II. New uses of pesticides,
herbicides, and fertilizers as well as new genetically
engineered breeds of high yield crops were employed to
greatly increase global food production. The new water
and food crisis is inevitable as global population is rising.
A startup that discovers new food sources, or optimizes
the current ones, would save millions of lives. Same goes
for water. Desalination of sea water that is commercially
feasible will be a breakthrough.

9. 8. Education
• Connecting students to the right disciplines and
the right teachers would make the world
population smarter. Although you can’t scale
good teachers physically, you can scale their
reach through the internet, even in one-on-one
teaching. Education being the key to when all the
things on this list happen, this may be a starting
point for those reading this who are not sure
what to do.

10. 9. Internet Infrastructure
• Internet is still vulnerable to
governments, natural disasters,
hacking, and it’s own size. Products
that will keep the servers safe, boost
security, and invent better ways to
store vast amounts of information are
worth funding.

11. 10. Government
• Government is a very large client. Its
software is routinely outdated or just
plain bad. It can be done better with
the efficiency of a startup.

12. 11. Virtual Reality and Augmented
Reality
•It seems like it’s here but it’s not.
VR and AR is still scary enough to
not be a daily product most people
use. A startup that makes it
practical enough to “de-scarify” it
is worth funding.

13. 12. Science
• Only universities and large companies
can afford large-scale scientific
research today. They are not always
efficient. Why couldn’t there be
independent research labs? Perhaps,
crowd-funded ones?

14. 13. Transportation
• No one likes to commute. Yet, the real
estate market shows that commuting
won’t go anywhere for the next while.
What we can do is make commuting
more convenient. Small personal
vehicles running on clean energy
would be the key.

15. 14. One Million Jobs
• Many jobs will inevitably default to robots
and computers over the next years. That
does not means humans will be out of
work. People will fill new professions
altogether. But someone needs to educate
and train for those professions of the
future. Someone needs to build the robots.

16. 15. Programming
• Even given how in demand programming
is, there is still a high barrier to entry. Not
much has changed since 20 years ago.
Programmers are still educated in the
same way and work with similar technical
issues. New programming tool and
education can change that.

17. 16. Hollywood 2.0
• New talent is no longer scouted out by
agents. The audience of YouTube can
directly select who they like. And
those celebrities can directly interact
with their fans. A startup can help
people discover talent on YouTube.

18. 17. Diversity
• Some demographics have historically
enjoyed less social and financial
success. Does it have to be so? The
education system and the work
environment can be changed to make
any ethnicity, race, and gender to
perform at their top level.

19. 18. Developing Countries
• Many services and products are not
available in the developing world
simply due to poor logistics, not
because of lack of demand. A startup
that optimizes international
delivering, imports, etc. is worth
funding.

20. 19. Enterprise Software
• Software used by large companies has
lagged behind the consumer market
for a while. It’s time to change that.
There is not reason you should even
have to mail letters or fax receipts to
get your refunds from large retailers,
for example.

21. 20. Financial Services
• Unless you are particularly wealthy,
financial services that help you grow
whatever money you do have are
almost non-existent. A startup that
finds new ways to invest money for
not-so-high-net-worth individuals is
worth funding

22. 21. Telecommunications
• Other than Skype and Whatsapp,
there has not really been a
breakthrough in how we talk to each
other at a distance. Communicating
could be faster and simple with more
effective usage of broadband. Also,
fewer ads.

23. Time to Act
• Pick one
• Brainstorm
• Found something Great ?
• Start Working on building the prototype
• Show it to investors, and . . .
• Rest will be history.