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Predictions for 2020 and the decade ahead

Eric Friedman

I am welcoming the 20’s with an enthusiasm I haven’t felt in awhile and more bullish than ever on technology and investing in general. Looking at the world in 2010 I could see the same question being asked. 8/ Deep Fakes become a huge problem for the 2020 elections. Happy 2020! 7/ Microsoft buys Slack.

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The Innovation State of the Union

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

I’ve made the acquaintance of a thought leader with her finger on the pulse of where the nation sits in terms of technological readiness to innovate. Her name is Pamela Menges, and she’s President of a high-tech start up in Cincinnati. In 2010 it was 4%.(1) Thanks Pamela. Where is the innovation workforce? –

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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. Facing a high unemployment rate among graduates, Kenya encourages entrepreneurship in an effort to create more jobs in the technology sector.

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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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9 Entrepreneurs Share Their Biggest Business Fails and How They Rebounded

Hearpreneur

2020 is a turning point for me: I’m going to focus more on my products and less on client work, until I will no longer need to work for clients in the future (well, I will probably still work for one or two clients that I really like, but the long-term goal is to make client work no more than 20% of my monthly income.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With TiE Chennai

ReadWriteStart

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. The concept, if technically as compelling as it sounds, could become a standard in building safety all over the world.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. Intuit 2020 Research Report. 2010 Top 10 Small Business Trends. New Communications Review. December 2010. Part of my business is working with tech start-ups as an advisor/consultant.

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