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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

What areas need to be disrupted? PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with. More Accessible Innovation Resources for All. We're seriously short on engineers period--and we are in serious danger of falling behind the rest of the world permanently in the race to innovate.

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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

This is a company that, according to the article, got term sheets from half of the VCs that expressed interest in the company. On top of that, the article comes with a chart--this chart to the left entited "Fewer Bets". I suppose, more specifically, the bubble ended in the last two weeks of September--right after this financing.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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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. Working at a big company is honorable and I don’t believe the narrative that all of this tech disruption is to kill off big companies. Now they are partners.

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Advice from an entrepreneurship expert, with Professor Michael Goldberg

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Here are Michael’s expanded answers to the most asked questions about these issues, including links to some of our past articles to help elaborate on these themes. . What advice would you give to entrepreneurs and professionals looking to finance their business? Check out this talk from the guru of innovation, Clayton Christensen. .

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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This article originally ran on PEHub. 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. THAT is disruption. They are frustrated by the past decade of subpar returns for the sector.

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

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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 gets disrupted precisely because its cost structure to serve its customers and its cash cow, high-priced offering makes it nearly impossible for it to try compete.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5% Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. “Yeah, but there is a shortage of supply.