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Re:Expunging Google by lobster_johnson on Monday April 22, 2013 @06:13AM (#5588637)
Good question. There aren't many. Most of the ones I can think of (Kickstarter, Github, Heroku) launched years ago and have since built on their success without really innovating much beyond the initial idea.

The YC portfolio has a lot of interesting, innovative startups. No products that I use myself at this point, though.

Right now, personally, the new idea I find the most exciting is crowd-funding computer games. Last year I spent a ton of money on Kickstarter to fund small indie developers such as Double Fine.

Re:Expunging Google by taopao on Monday April 22, 2013 @03:58PM (#5591458)
Why? Double Fine isn't innovating. You've played Maniac Mansion, right? Everything else is just incremental variations.
Re:Expunging Google by lobster_johnson on Monday April 22, 2013 @04:41PM (#5591650)
The innovation is the crowd-funding model used to seed non-mainstream (in the sense that these games are all fairly "nerdy" compared to the average Facebook user) stuff with real budgets.