I was thinking about the state of startups recently and I had a realization. Every time a platform shift hits, there's a brief, golden phase when the rules get rewritten and the tools feel unfairly good. That's exactly where we're sitting right now. (sidenote, highly recommend Ideabrowser.com for insane validated startup ideas and prompts to build your ideas) The distance between "I have an idea" and "someone is paying for it" has never been shorter, but not for the reasons most people think....