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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

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But as we now know 33% of the world’s population is now connected to the Internet, the majority of traffic to the major Internet properties is now global and at Benedict Evans pointed out in his recent report, more than 70% of the world’s literate population will have a smartphone within 4 years. Prices down. Network Up.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. But social unrest is created in harsh economic times and we’ve seen this in Greece before. Venture capital is an industry best served up from 7-year aged casks.

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