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Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback

Startup Professionals Musings

I continue to believe that most of the data gathering in the real world, and on the Internet, is done by businesses to help you find what you want, protect you, and improve your experience, rather than invade your privacy or scam you. There are others, like Norton LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3

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Internet of Things: The Skills Connected Companies Look For In Young Professionals

YoungUpstarts

by Nicolas Windpassinger , author of “ Internet of Things: Digitize or Die “ Everyone speaks about the Internet of Things, by now most people know what it is and some start-ups and young professionals are knees deep in IoT. Existing jobs are changing too and some become more important.

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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

View from Seed

We are currently seeing the most rapid collapse of retail since the Great Recession, due to the internet changing consumer demand and purchasing patterns. In 2017 alone, we’ve seen widespread store closures or bankruptcies from apparel retailers, including: True Religion. It’s a $1T+ global industry undergoing tectonic shifts.

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Mary Meeker’s Internet And Digital Trends for 2017

Brandanew

Lo and behold, Internet growth is stagnating if you take out India. India still is at only 27% Internet penetration so there’s a lot of growth opportunity. Here are some of my favorite key takeaways: Mary Meeker’s Key Internet and Digital Trends for 2017. Mary Meeker’s 2017 Internet Trends Report.

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Recapping Q2 2017: Portfolio News and Activities

Version One Ventures

To gear up for the summit, you can check out Blockstack Academy for a series of educational videos featuring the founders, Ryan Shea and Muneeb Ali, on the history of the Internet, distributed systems principles and pitfalls, and a vision for what can be built using systems like Blockstack. We’re already moving full-steam into Q3.

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An Updated Joel Test for 2017

Austin Startup

Here’s my take on an updated Joel Test for 2017, based on my career experience and how we build software at VidiGuard. Remember: The internet has made defensive writers of us all. There is limited place for a developer tool that can’t at least commit locally on an airplane in 2017. Money doesn’t buy the best tools in 2017.

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SXSWi 2017 Wrap up coming soon

Austin Startup

The “internet of caring things” and the “cognitive study of elderly care”. Stay tuned for this ( and much, much, much more ) in my 2017 breakdown SXSWi 2017 Wrap up coming soon was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.