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The year ahead: 2011

This is going to be BIG.

There will be an estimated 50+ million tablets sold in the US in 2011, and 36 million of them will be iPads—I’m likely to be a buyer at some point before I head to Strata. nextNY, the NYC innovation community group that I started, turns 5 years old in February. My niece will apply to college.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. dot-com bonanza. Ten years on much has changed.

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If NYC is going to be a real innovation hub, we can't have our own senators supporting SOPA/PIPA

This is going to be BIG.

Unfortunately, it comes at the expense of destroying the conditions around which internet innovation has thrived. That allowed me the freedom to create and innovate, and to show the rights holder how cool it could be for me to use their stuff. Big media companies don’t want innovation. That was a good business.

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Announcing nextNY Fellows: An Innovation Community Leadership Initiative

This is going to be BIG.

With that in mind, I tried to come up with a structure and set of incentives to make it easier for new up and coming faces in the crowd to step up and make a name for themselves by making a positive impact on the innovation community. Here's what they will get: - A $500 stipend for 2011 to be used on leadership development.

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Innovation Stacks and Crazy Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In his book The Innovation Stack , he recounts how he and his cofounder, Jack Dorsey of Twitter, approached the problem of credit cards with a new perspective. Here, he explains what an Innovation Stack is, plus what makes a real entrepreneur. . What is an Innovation Stack? If you succeed, you have an Innovation Stack.

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Why Docracy is the Most Revolutionary Company of Our Time

This is going to be BIG.

Note: I led First Round's investment in Docracy in 2011, but I do not have any financial ties to the company and will not benefit or suffer, other than emotionally, based on the outcome of that investment. Innovation wasn’t a priority for those who were fat and happy at the top of the pile.

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My Investment in Hungryroot: A Tasty Lesson in Products vs. Services

This is going to be BIG.

They do this through vertical integration and special packaging--and that's where the technical innovation comes in. I first met Ben on January 29th, 2011 at an SLP mentoring session. So if you don't have any by Friday, no worries. You can have them next week. He was working on Village Vines, which became Savored.

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