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Predictions for 2020 and the decade ahead

Eric Friedman

Looking at the world in 2010 I could see the same question being asked. The need for software and services to accommodate this group looks nothing like the bank accounts, benefits, and tax software we use today. 8/ Deep Fakes become a huge problem for the 2020 elections. Happy 2020! 4/ Taboos become more normal.

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The Innovation State of the Union

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

It wasn’t like we were packaging software we were producing the highest performing vertical axis wind turbine. In 2010 it was 4%.(1) In 2010 it was 4%.(1) According to the US Bureau of Labor the current requirement for the increase in engineering employment from 2010 to 2020 is 11% with aerospace engineering at 5%.

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Making Money From Blogs

ReadWriteStart

During today's roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models. I met Ram Kumar during my visit to Chennai and advised him to look at the Bioscope project in my Vision India 2020 book.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher. Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL. What are the most common skills in each category? With a population of 11.4

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. People feared they were going to have a monopoly over the Internet due to “bunding&# Internet Explorer with their operating system. So … November 2010 and Facebook has 500 million users.

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ESG in Venture Capital: Interview with Blue Future Partners (VC Fund of Funds)

David Teten

A lot of these challenges became grossly apparent in 2020: social instability, climate crisis, public health crises, national security crises, disinformation. When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

ReadWriteStart

Adrian wants to build a location-based service focused on assembling, and then reviewing and rating various services from fixing roofs to plumbing. A well designed trust system with reviews and ratings and dispute settlement would be necessary to prevent fraud, the way other exchanges like eBay do. Discuss.