Paul Graham has a nice little essay about his perspective on this: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html . It

Paul Graham has a nice little essay about his perspective on this: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html . It's pretty lengthy so I would suggest pondering over various sections and re-reading it after a while to let it all sink in, but a helpful primer nonetheless.