Investors are considering ideas from folks who don't have built-out engineering teams or heavy-duty, costly hardware, both of which were once essential to making a startup happen.
California, the center of venture capital and tech startups, happens to be unique in having laws that make the enforcement of non-competition clauses very difficult.
And it's exciting and there are startups happening.
He issues a rallying cry to get startups happening outside the Valley, using the methods used in the developing world.
Anyways, crowd funding money tends to tilt towards 'cool' stuff, which very few Indian startups happen to go for," said Kalkat of Frrole.
"We've gotten significantly more ambitious in the last year... I think we can figure out a way to make a whole lot more startups happen and really help them".
A ha! While Thiel says that small businesses are both hard to reach and traditionally resistant to change, I think that SMBs and startups happen to be a pretty open-minded customer base, as long as your startup or app doesn't charge an armload.
Not only is the startup bringing the heat to user generated spam like spammy comments, hacked accounts, and fraudulent registrations, but the startup also happens to be founded by Mark Risher, Yahoo's former "Spam Czar", as well as former Yahoos Vish Ramarao and Naveen Jamal.
When a handful of big tech company engineers leave the mothership to found a startup, as happens in Silicon Valley from time to time, they can often drum up a round of funding before pencil meets paper.
He bootstrapped a multi-billion dollar startup, which happens now to be the largest tech company based in NYC, a global business with 15,000 employees.
