Over the the last few days there has been a lot of spotlight on the tech sector. Sorry, Minister Ryan, I meant knowledge economy.

The Dublin Web Summit took place over the weekend and some of the World’s biggest names came to town. People like Jack Dorsey (Twitter), Chad Hurley (YouTube) and many more.

Naturally this caused a stir and rightly so. People attended in large numbers, hoping I’m sure for inspiration for their own ideas. The event was widely followed on Twitter (of course :-) ) and some of the speakers & organizer, Paddy Cosgrave were interviewed on the Late Late.

To cut a long story short, a recurring theme caught my attention. A lot of the talk seemed to be about how one could find funding for a startup.

Even on the Late Late, the “Founders” were asked how, in these times, people could find funding for their ideas.

Now, I might be missing something, but if you’re going to set up some sort of web service (which is what most of the Founders’ products are), we’re not talking millions.

Hardware has never been cheaper, faster and more reliable.  Powerful software packages can be purchased or event rented at  very low cost. Outsourcing is common practice and  issues with  development no longer requires trips to the library for obscure books on sorcery, erm, software.

My point is, if the idea is a good one and you REALLY believe in it, nothing should stop you from making it a reality.

I should know, I’ve had 100s of ideas an NONE of them have seen the light of day :-)