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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

What types of things might happen in 2012, as opposed to needing another 3-5 years to come to fruition. That aside, here are ten areas I think you'll see some interesting things happening in 2012. One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends.

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Startup Map & Trends Analysis – September 2012

Gust

Not surprisingly, many new startups across the world are in the development stage. This means almost 1 out of every 5 startups have a product in development, whereas less than 10% are product ready, and even less are in revenue stage, which make up only 3%. Check back soon to read October’s edition of the map and trends analysis.

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Startup Business Funding: 5 Business-Breaking Misconceptions

Dream It

The first time, back in 2012, I joined as part of a mobile gaming company. We spent most of that summer developing the product while carving out time to meet investors and try to raise funding. In 2011, he founded Pota-Toss, a Kickstarter-funded iOS game, released on the App Store on October 2012.

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Startup Map & Trends Analysis – December 2012

Gust

in Development Stage, 34.5% Top 5 Us states remained steady this month and were consistent with their yearly averages. New startups creation stages remained steady and in line with the rest of the year, with 13.1% in Concept Stage, 43.2% in Product Ready Stage and 9.2% in Revenue Stage.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. So it is unsurprising that an over-funding environment and the commensurate returns hangover would have lasted until about – well – 2012.

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Being Too Early and VC Self Improvement

This is going to be BIG.

I asked a few developers I knew about it and the feedback was " Not ready yet, but has conceptual promise and it doesn't suck." One did note that " this kind of platform is going to change the way we educate people in application development ". It would be over two years until he took his first round of capital earlier in 2012.

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The Startups and Investors Bringing Voice Tech to Healthcare

Dream It

Boston Children’s Hospital has piloted or promoted dozens of voice applications and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has supported the development of platforms like Sopris Health and Aiva Health. Insurers, pharma companies, CROs, and academic medical centers have developed applications with Orbita.