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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

What types of things might happen in 2012, as opposed to needing another 3-5 years to come to fruition. That aside, here are ten areas I think you'll see some interesting things happening in 2012. One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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She hasn’t raised any venture capital. She drove her company to profitability before paying herself a modest salary. She leveraged herself and even sold many of her possessions to get started. And when her assets were tapped she rented out her bedroom and even her couch on Airbnb to afford her year-one operations. More on that later.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

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And this month we announced that Maker Studios, where I am an investor and board member, crossed 3 billion views. Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. This has been a very welcome addition.

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Lydia raises another $86 million to build a European financial super app

TechCrunch

He joined Accel as a venture partner in July and he’s going to join Lydia’s board of directors. Shortly after, Braintree acquired peer-to-peer payment app Venmo. They had just released their mobile app in April of 2012,” Jhawar told me in a phone interview. Jhawar joined payments company Braintree in 2011 as COO and CFO.

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Dealing With Generational Change at VC Firms

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The founding partner of Upfront, Yves Sisteron, has been a mentor for me since 1999 and was on the board of my first company. And thankfully I had the support of my peers. It’s 25 minutes and it’s both a pleasure to watch and is super insightful. We as an industry have seen this. ” And we did.

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Feature Friday: Megan Burton, EO Atlanta

Entrepreneurs' Organization

When she joined in 2012, her company, CoinX, was in high growth mode, which made support from her EO community an invaluable asset. When she joined in 2012, her company, CoinX, was in high growth mode, which made support from her EO community an invaluable asset. Learn more about EO today!

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Reflections from the Womenomics 2.0 Event at the Brookings Institute

Entrepreneurs' Organization

” The morning consisted of a presentation by Mitsue Kurihara, a Board member from the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), who launched the DBJ Women Entrepreneurs Center in November 2011; and a moderated panel with three female entrepreneurs: Donna Fujimoto Cole, Fujiyo Ishiguro and Sachiko Kuno. When asked what motivated her, Ms.