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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

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. What areas need to be disrupted? With the release of iCloud, that's less of an advantage now than it used to be. What areas are going to change? You can't have everything--where would you put it?"

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Entrepreneurs Need To Keep Their Business Focused

Gust

Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. Startups that try to mix a non-profit entity with a for-profit entity to share resources don’t work, and scare off investors. Zappos logo via Flickr by Ben Spark.

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The Ideal Pitch Deck is a Story, a Science, and an Art

StartupNation

In the startup world, it’s pitch decks, not business plans that get companies funded. Making a pitch deck is an art, a science, but most importantly, a story. Angel investors and venture capitalists have also learned to expect a standard pitch deck as the first filter when evaluating a company to invest in.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it.

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The Anatomy of a Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Stories, Slides, and Data Primary data set of public 3-minute pitches and 2-minute Q&As I have spent more than a decade coaching thousands of people on how to tell stories. As a result, I began meticulously cataloging the pitch conversations I listened to and ended up with nearly four hundred thousand words in transcript data.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. We think it’s a matter of products, but history shows us it takes more than just products and technology to create the sweeping changes. Power Pitches.

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Stylework, India’s co-working marketplace, nabs $2m in fresh funding

AsiaTechDaily

Existing investor WFC, along with iAngels Network, Sateeq Invest, and Impactful Pitch structured syndicates, and marquee industry mix global HNIs, also participated in the round.