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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. 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool.

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Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks

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Let me be sure to use me some Luma Partners. Every corporate buyer of technology and/or technology companies knows the LUMAscape and uses it to figure out which vendors they should consider. A journalist has a visual chart they can use. After all, my money has the same president on it as everybody else’s in the US.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

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I was arguing that I believe in this strategy on the Internet as any disciple of The Innovator’s Dilemma will tell you. MiTú will use its $10 million to build out new production facilities in LA and Mexico. The Internet works best on Deflationary Economics. So Why MiTú? And we’re growing our sales organization.

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8 Steps to Making Better Business Decisions

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Their competitors took advantage—and Kodak went bankrupt in 2012. Use the data collected from those varying perspectives to accomplish this step. They may seem outlandish or politically unacceptable, but experience shows that the optimal choice is often drawn from out of the box and innovative elements.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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My point is that historically the ecosystem in LA has bred innovations in monetization and technologies but to date hasn’t reached the kind of scale of our major NorCal brethren. If you throw in Oculus into the mix along with TrueCar, Rubicon, Burstly, Beats and others LA Tech has seen more than $8 billion in exits in 2014 alone.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

I think I’m an innovator myself, but I know I’m not an opinion leader. Both products were innovative leaders. I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. Somewhere in the mix, timing matters a great deal and first isn’t often the most significant mover advantage.

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