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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with. New York has quickly become one of the best places in the world to start a company, but if you look at demographics, Brooklyn is a unique area whose innovator and maker population outnumbers most other cities in the country. Reader beware.).

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. What person hasn’t crouched at an airport to get 18% extra on one’s battery before boarding an airplane? Now they are partners. I’d love even 0.5%

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Is @AngelList Syndicates Really Such a Big Deal?

Both Sides of the Table

They will have to sit on boards. ” That means sitting on boards and helping entrepreneurs to handle the most difficult things that pop up like: lawsuits. lack of traction, lack of downstream financing availability. I sit on less than 10 boards precisely so that I can be deeply involved when I’m most needed.

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How a Little Bit of Fear Breeds Innovation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

million published articles, isolated around 2,500 of those that were related to IOL, generated about 1,200 attributes and identified roughly 3,300 possible values for them. If you are interested in entrepreneurship, innovation and accelerating your growth, then you will want to register for EO24/7 , EO’s annual virtual-learning event.

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The Surest Sign You’re Winning is When Goliath Takes a Swing at You

Both Sides of the Table

This Goliath imposed fight by ADT is particularly annoying for me because Ring is literally my family’s single favorite tech innovation of the past several years. And the giant knows it has no ability to properly respond at the prices and with the innovation that Ring will serve its customers. It comes through in full force.

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We’re Entering the Stay-Home Economy. Here are 10 Industries That Will Be Winners

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The below article is part of Robert Glazer’s LinkedIn Newsletter series and originally appeared on Glazer’s LinkedIn page. You can expect to see families invest in toys, to keep their children occupied, as well as board games, projects and puzzles that can be done as a family in the evening and on weekends.

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Infermedica Raises $10 million Series A for R&D and International Expansion

Dream It

Today, the company announced a $10M Series A financing round led by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and digital health fund Heal Capital , with participation from existing investors Karma Ventures, Inovo Venture Partners, and Dreamit Ventures. The new capital places total funding to date at $15 million.

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