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My Top 10 for 2018

Start Up Blog

I was thinking about some of the cool things I saw, read, noticed and digested around the world of tech for 2018. You’ll notice underlying the top 10 is what I regard to be the biggest shift in tech at the moment is the realisation that we have a technology wildfire raging. A bonus blog post for your holiday perusal.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. So contrary to the piece, it wasn’t VC were good at early stage technology, it was that they had newfound capital and a big exit window.

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

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally. The era of the patriarch is nearing an end.

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Twitter Link Roundup #199 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! You Can’t Be a Wimp—Make the Tough Calls | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/H4gLnT. Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2014 | Forbes - crowdspring.co/H47XhY.

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Service Exports - Driving U.S. Startups and Small Businesses

Growthink Blog

By way of anecdote, from the time Dave Lavinsky and I founded Growthink in 1999 through 2008, more than 95% of our firm’s clients and investors were U.S. Since the great “financial crisis” of 2008-2009, the firm’s clientele – really without us even trying – has becoming increasingly global. Global Best Practices. And with U.S.

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10 Product Recommendation Techniques to Improve UX and Conversions

ConversionXL

This means that personalization and related technologies left the “nice to have” category for good. While in the media, the words recommendations and personalization are pretty much used interchangeably, they’re not at all the same thing. The Difference Between Recommendations and Personalization.

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Note to Gordon Gekko: 1985 is Gone For Good

Growthink Blog

market indices (Dow, S and P, NASDAQ) are trading lower today than they were in September 1999. Certainly not the financial media, which has figured out that it is just a lot more fun to focus on the daily ups and downs of the market and personalities, than the more stuffy and far more ratings-unfriendly focus on return metrics.

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