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The next phase of innovation

Start Up Blog

This can be done through products, services, methods, processes, business models or governance. . The two things that matter above for this post are; ‘ unarticulated market needs ‘ and ‘ Governance ‘ Both of which will be the most important facets of innovation in the coming decade.

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Bitcoin Emerges as New Standard in Post-COVID Economy?

ReadWriteStart

What the visionary, Milton Friedman, predicted about Bitcoin in 1999. Even before Bitcoin became a reality, visionaries like Milton Friedman were predicting the rise of an internet-version of cash, as long ago as 1999. The internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government,” he said at the time.

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

thebarefootvc

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). eCommerce/Social Commerce: New models continue to evolve as ecommerce rebounded this past year.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Most of the informed people I know are telling me that the sharp sell-off has more to do with European national debt (PIGS as it is called: Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain) than the current US dilemma of a S&P downgrade of the US government debt. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. And Social. It’s too early.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers. In 1995, though, I wasn’t truly network-literate yet. Follow your network.”. Be passionate, sure, but also think about where your network is strong, and what opportunities that strength creates. You just started building.

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SXSW Startups: Sceenic Connects Viewers

Austin Startup

But rather than being on a public text chat, the user has an option to “form a private room” and invite friends via a social network or a direct link. On a “dream big” kind of note, I would love to meet Mark Cuban as he was one of the people responsible for broadcast.com back in 1999 when it sold to Yahoo. In the U.K.

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. 2011 – “There is no network effect in the enterprise software business; it’s not a category we invest in anymore”.

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