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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. 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story. Around $400 billion of imports & exports pass through the LA ports each year, which set the national high-water mark in 2012.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten VC

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. RBI structures have been used for many years in natural resource exploration, entertainment, real estate, and pharmaceuticals.

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Penpot inks $8M as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe’s $20B acquisition move

TechCrunch

On a community level, however, designers and others were upset: They had adopted Figma precisely because it was not Adobe. with participation also from Athos and, significantly, several individuals notable for their roles in creative and developer ecosystems. Athos is a repeat backer: It also invested in an earlier $2.6

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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

Who are the best search partners to use, and let then letting you and that search firm run with the execution. I think it’s probably about 40% with the portfolio, about 40% with the executive community, and then about 20% on work with the veterans community, which we can get into later. The mission is the elevator pitch.

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Building APIs for AI: An Interview with Zapier’s Bryan Helmig

Y Combinator

One of the best companies at connecting APIs is Zapier, which went through the YC Summer 2012 batch. Ultimately we are using LLMs to make APIs easier to use for both humans and other LLMs! With LLMs in the mix, we’re hoping we’ll enable that same level of creativity and power, and now from the developer community.

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6 Oslo VCs discuss 2021 trends, deal flow and regional opportunities

TechCrunch

That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. Use discount code HALLO to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two. Our team has been involved and invested in crypto since 2012, so we’ve been excited about the industry for a long time.