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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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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

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Not only did I want it to include people working on the future of digital media at ABC, but I also had in mind the roll that other types of creative people have in the inspiration of a city. Three companies from the Studiomates community-- Sherpaa , Tinybop , and Editorially --received VC dollars in 2012. 33 Flatbush.

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Tinybop and Crafting a Brand

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I could spend a lot of time writing a long diatribe about what it means to create a brand, or I could just show you three videos that Tinybop , a company I seeded in 2012, made as part of the marketing for their new app, Plants. Consider the bar raised.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

Creative – we’re a place of writers, directors, producers, musicians, costume designers, make-up artists, graphic artists, 3D modelers. ” To me, LA will always be a creative hub for TV, film, music, video games and now technology. Third most powerful economic city in the world after NYC & Tokyo. Not derivative.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Here Cincinnati was really creative to its approach to attracting more venture capital to the region – including this author. In 2012 Upfront Ventures raised its 4th venture capital fund – this one was $200 million. We started investing the fund in April 2012 and by early 2013 had closed our fund to new investors.

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Advice from Warren Rustand: Put Your Head Down and Walk Into the Storm

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In terms of pandemics, we remember avian flu (1997), SARS (2003) and MERS (2012). Kalika Yap , is founder and CEO of both Orange & Bergamot , a creative agency for female founders, and Citrus Studios , a branding and design agency. But we’ve all dealt with things that felt new and terrible at the time.

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

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Around $400 billion of imports & exports pass through the LA ports each year, which set the national high-water mark in 2012. Intuitively most people know that LA isn’t just the entrepreneurial capital of the US but it is also the creative capital. In fact, 1 in 7 or nearly 15% of Angelinos are employed in a creative field.