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Trends: Follow or flee?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

In the next 10 years: There will be another “surprising” Black Swan financial market event. India and China will grow in population and influence. Surely building a story around a “geo-mobile app with viral social gaming” stacks the funding deck in your favor. Mobile device usage will increase.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.