As I often say, a mixed metaphor is worth two in the bush.

Seriously, though, as I keep watching the startup community, what I want to tell every wannabe technical founder is to find a business partner. There are a zillion businesspeople out there with real, valuable problems who lack the technical skill to implement their solution. Those have a far better chance of success than cobbling together something from the set of problems visible to a 22 year old CS student.