Oz,

When you ask if anyone has "any experience with software for the Sony PSP or iPod" - are you asking about technology (the software), or the market, or the gaming / music industr, or ...? You do ask about the market - if it's profitable - but you also ask about developing software. SO I ama bit confused as to what type of advice you are looking for.

Do you already own a company? Or are you mainly a programmer (looking for something to put together)? I notice in other posts, that you have asked about the anti-spyware market.

So, are you looking to start a new company or do you already own an existing company, and looking to expand? I'm trying to better understand your experience level - when it comes to starting and/or successfully operating a business. It will help with our responses to your questions

Regards,

Mark

Usman,

Last time you went down this path with us, the advice was solid that instead of hunting for software to make, or trying to enter an already crowded anti-spyware market, you should look to create a product that solves a need that you know about. Rather than looking at download.com to see what is popular, you should look at businesses and the world around you and research what is missing for a particular market.

Chances are really good that when you go chasing after what's hot, the market will have been saturated by the time you get there. Read Guy Kawasaki's The Art of The Start for a good basic business primer. I also recommend that you look at partnering with someone that has a software idea so that you could be the developer and they could run the business. I can see that you're excited about creating something, I just want to see you be successful with the effort and work you put into it.

Don't quote my whole post if replying, that takes the moderators time on this forum to clean up.

Lisa