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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? With the release of iCloud, that's less of an advantage now than it used to be. Adding a phone to that mix as the person paying seeing unnecessarily complicated, especially given the battery life issue. What areas are going to change? What will Facebook do to things? What's the business model?

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A Meeting of Unreasonable Minds

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. Promoting Disruption. Contributing to Sustainable Development.

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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. They invest in companies that are disrupting traditional retail and consumer experiences.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Construction tech survey, founder-CEO friction, diversify your cap table

TechCrunch

Configuring a robot to mix cement is easy, but delivering a CementTron 3000 to a job site, training employees on its use, and keeping it maintained are not the kinds of disruptions builders are looking for, especially when margins are so thin and experienced workers are hard to find. Sungjoon Cho, general partner, D20 Capital.

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Daily Crunch: Plaid product updates signal push to ‘own’ more of the account funding process

TechCrunch

based company said it was able to unlock Tesla doors by hacking into the Bluetooth Low Energy technology used by Tesla to unlock and operate the car via its app or key fob. It’s not just Tesla — anyone using this type of technology is vulnerable, the company said. Tesla is not immune : A U.K.-based Startups and VC.

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Micromax, smartphone sales stalled, eyes a steer into electric vehicles

TechCrunch

But a mix of stronger (and cheaper) competition, coupled with the rapid pace of technology development and the ongoing market slowdown , have left it spinning. “The profits were not to the extent that we could sustain and move to the next level as far as the branding is concerned.

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The Book that Reveals 10 Steps to Solving Any Complex Problem

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In their book Cracking Complexity , David Komlos and David Benjamin share the steps to working through any complex business problem—both quickly and using existing talent, not consultants. And, they require stakeholder buy-in for sustained execution. Chemical reactions happen when substances mix. What do they usually get wrong?