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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

What areas need to be disrupted? 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. More Accessible Innovation Resources for All. What areas are going to change? Reader beware.). Open Government. Election years tend to be good for technology diffusion.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs. The goal was to create innovations outside of MySpace and then MySpace would acquire them at pre-agreed prices based on how well they performed. This was Politburo-style innovation and was laughable. Enter Facebook.

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The Coming Zombie Startup Apocalypse

This is going to be BIG.

Would you be surprised to know that almost half of the dot com companies founded when the boom started in 1996 were still around in 2004--four years after the peak of the NASDAQ? Innovation continues to disrupt older industries, create opportunities, and create new streams of revenue.

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Restrictions on acquisitions would stifle the US startup ecosystem, not rein in big tech

TechCrunch

Acquisitions contribute to the health of the startup ecosystem, as entrepreneurs who realize liquidity through the sale of their company regularly go on to found innovative new companies and often invest in other startups as angel investors or venture capitalists. since before the dawn of the modern venture capital industry.”

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Why AI Won't Be the Investment Opportunity Everyone Thinks It Is

This is going to be BIG.

When I think about true disruptions in tech—the ones that enable huge investor outcomes because they create generational behavior change, entirely new markets, and populate whole business ecosystems out of nothing—location-aware mobile devices stand out to me as right up there with the web itself. Was this episode from five years ago?

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Unbundling the Game Engine: The Rise of Next Generation 3D Creation Engines

Andreessen Horowitz

The emergence of generative AI, cloud computing, and new spatial platforms is poised to disrupt 3D creation end-to-end. Of course, this vision came to reality through the games industry (which is often the tip of the spear for technological innovations). What is a Next Generation 3D Creation Engine?

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Hint Founder Kara Goldin Says When it Comes to Entrepreneurship, Just Get Started

StartupNation

That spring of 2004, I was looking after our three kids—Emma, five; Kaitlin, three; and Keenan, two. Because of my experience at AOL, I had a reputation as an innovator in online shopping and e-commerce. Something disruptive. I had a lot to figure out, and it wasn’t like I had nothing else to do. I didn’t want to repeat myself.