      The barriers for starting a company have come down. Today,
the total available markets for new applications are hundreds of
millions if not billions of users, while new classes of
investors are popping up all over (crowdfunding, mobfunding,
angels, superangels, archangels, and even seraphim and cherubim
have been spotted.)      Entrepreneurship departments are now
the cool thing to have in colleges and universities, and classes
on how to start a company are being taught over a weekend,
a month, six weeks and via an online course.         Science
Experiments      One of the amazing consequences of business-
model design and customer development is the ability to assess
product-market fit with very few resources, time and money.
This allows a part-timer to significantly reduce the risk (and
increase valuation of a round) before having to quit. In
addition, the low cost of creating web and mobile apps means you
can get a lot of experiments in both hardware and software up
and running simultaneously and