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2012 Will Be The Year Of The Empowered Merchant, says Schedulicty

YoungUpstarts

Jerry Nettuno, founder and CEO of online appointment scheduling service Schedulicity , believes that 2012 will be a year that will see a majority of small businesses harness and leverage the power of technology and online productivity tools to effective manage and grow their business. 2012 sees extreme contraction in the Daily Deal space.

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Taming The Apps Explosion With Data Center Convergence

YoungUpstarts

Outlining the perils of mass application adoption. The concept of working on-the-go in Asia has resulted in application developers experiencing a sudden increase in companies commissioning the creation of enterprise applications for the mobile workplace over the past 18 months. Why convergence matters.

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Will Crowdfunding Replace Angel And VC Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

despite having been passed into law in early 2012 via the JOBS Act , and still has no scheduled date for availability, waiting for the rules to be finalized by the SEC. The primary challenge seems to be that the crowdfunding term is used to encompass so many different concepts that everyone is confused.

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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

Gust

As I write this, days after the 2012 presidential election, I’m probably not alone in feeling relieved that the political jeering and soapboxing that reached a feverish pitch during the seemingly endless campaign season has finally subsided. Granted most startups will never become another Apple or Google. misses an opportunity.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. On the application side, cloud computing magically removes the largest organizational constraints to adopting new capabilities: the costs to deploy, maintain and train people on enterprise software.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. On the application side, cloud computing magically removes the largest organizational constraints to adopting new capabilities: the costs to deploy, maintain and train people on enterprise software.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. Today’s Normalization.