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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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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. They are frustrated by the past decade of subpar returns for the sector. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

This is classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” market conditions. Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. hours of TV / day.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

I want to thank my coauthor Akshat Dixit , a rising senior at North Carolina State University, intern at Versatile VC, and past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. . Columbia , University of Washington , NYU ) have mounted formal efforts to promote interdisciplinary innovation.

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Collabio lets you co-edit documents without the cloud

TechCrunch

The early team behind Collabio included some devs who worked on Quickoffice but didn’t go to Google as part of that 2012 acquisition. The p2p software lets multiple people co-edit a document locally — from a mobile device or desktop computer — without A) the risk of uploading sensitive information to the cloud (i.e.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

As such, creating a functional clone of Gust (including all the features under the hood, and ones that have not yet been released), using world-class engineers and state-of-the-art, 2012 project management in Ruby on Rails, would take roughly 20 person-years from soup to nuts (figure about 1/3 of that in product/UX/UI and 2/3 in actual coding.)

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Crowdfunding Platform Republic hosts Motorcycle Sharing Marketplace’s Campaign

American Entrepreneurship

Equity crowdfunding is part of the 2012 JOBS Act that allows companies to raise funds through a wider pool of small investors that has fewer restrictions. Equity crowdfunding is part of the 2012 JOBS Act that allows companies to raise funds through a wider pool of small investors that has fewer restrictions.