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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

But even more exciting is when I see inflection points of adoption — which is why 2011 was a particularly exhilirating year for me. What We Saw in 2011…. The list of applications to engage, empower and organize citizens continues to grow, and will be one of the most defining legacies of 2011.

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5 Free Platforms Entrepreneurs Should Be Using To Manage And Streamline Their Business

YoungUpstarts

Wave is a free, cloud-based tool specifically designed for small businesses. In 2011, Scott launched Appsbar, the first cost-free tool for anyone of any skill level with a limited budget to develop professional and personalized apps that appear in the largest online marketplaces including iTunes and Android Market.

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3 Major Product Fails, And How To Avoid Their Mistakes

YoungUpstarts

The startup community prides itself on supporting risk-taking and embracing failure. Google released Chromebook in October 2011, offering a faster and easier way to access the Internet. It eliminated the desktop component to take users directly into the cloud. Innovation involves risk. Google Chromebook.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

ShareVolution As for the pitches today, first, Daniel McPherson from Australia pitched ShareVolution , an app store for the Microsoft SharePoint community. Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy.

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New investment: Upverter, a cloud-based platform for the hardware revolution

Version One Ventures

In the design phase, we believe that hardware engineering will follow a similar path as the open source software community that built GitHub. That’s why we are thrilled to officially announce our investment in Toronto’s Upverter , a cloud-based platform for sharing hardware design.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

Techcello Next, Ram Kumar, also from Chennai, India, discussed Techcello , a multi-tenant SaaS framework for moving applications from.NET to a cloud architecture. The technology has been highly acclaimed in the mobile device community as a way to let users type in multiple, especially non-Latin, languages.

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4 Definitive Ways To Deal With Outages

YoungUpstarts

People went offline and “cloud computing” was just a bunch of castles in the air. Their community manager had left one month before the downtime, so it didn’t seem like queries were being attended to. The good people behind Twitter would apologize and if it was a slow news day, tech media would pick it up.

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