A text-book case of analysis paralysis! I get the feeling you're inability to get something started may stem from trying to over optimise on your options. The

A text-book case of analysis paralysis! I get the feeling you're inability to get something started may stem from trying to over optimise on your options. The opportunity cost of selecting any particular path is real (and scary), but you have to take the plunge! I have had a few reasonably successful start ups (link to my latest one is in my profile), and I can tell you that if you are careful to start small, the opportunity cost is not so big. With a small startup, you don't really need to commit till you see traction. Try this (I've done this in the past, and it's quite useful): 1) All of you sit down together to jot down a few ideas you have floating around your minds. 2) Pick the best one at that moment, and think about who your potential customers could be. Google a few actual companies - say 5 or 10. 3) Without writing a single bit of code, think about logistics and give the idea a bit of structure (how it would work, how much it would cost etc). 4) Call the potential clients from step 2 and try to sell them the product. It doesn't exist yet, but they don't know that. They will probably tell you "no", or "we use xyz to do this already" etc 5) Use their responses as valuable data points - if all of them don't need your service, maybe the idea's a dud. If they already have something doing the same thing, and they pay for it, it may be worth exploring to see how you can improve on the existing experience. That should take you about 2-3 hours at most and will at least end up generating some discussion. Clearly, you have time, money and people at your disposal. Unfortunately, it seems, you've locked yourselves away in an echo chamber to the point that the world can't reveal its many problems to you!