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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

Election years tend to be good for technology diffusion. 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. With an influx of talented designers into startup communities, I think you'll see better, more effective launches and more useful services.

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Lessons from the Trenches: One Founder’s Candid Look at Bootstrapping

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My entrepreneurial story didn’t start with an invention or a groundbreaking technological breakthrough. This experience allowed me to identify a critical void in financing companies: building healthy capital stacks and navigating the public offering process. and more articles from the EO blog.

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The bar is higher

This is going to be BIG.

From a technology perspective, so many parts of the stack have been made easier--from spinning up servers on EC2 and S3, to getting hosted Rails infrastructure on Heroku. Even the one time blogging platform of choice Wordpress can, without a lot of hassles, can be manipulated to be your entire site's content management system.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

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I grew up here, went to school here, and have worked hard over the last 5+ years to help build up the NYC innovation community. It’s often some combination of the idea not being big enough to sustain a venture exit or the company just not being appropriate for venture financing. I was there, too. They’re not “dumb Wall Street money”.

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The business model of the future

Entrepreneurs' Organization

It has become an essential way to pay—whether you’re purchasing a water bottle at the kiosk around the corner or financing your wedding plans. Tesla has offered to share its innovative battery technology and other software with the automotive industry. The post The business model of the future appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.