5 top trends in consumer-based Internet businesses for 2011. Jeremy Liew is managing director of Lightspeed Venture Partners in the U.S.
He invests primarily in the Internet and mobile sectors. Every year, Lightspeed Venture Partners goes on record with some prognostications for what the future holds. You can check out our 2010 predictions here (we figure we scored about a B on those). Here’s what we’re predicting for 2011: 1.
Emerging tech-and-startups countries. Crowdsourcing. Use of the social graph. Open innovation. Crowdfunding. Game Design, Psychology, Flow, and Mastery - Blog - External Rewards and Jesse Schell's Amazing Lecture. I read a lot about psychology, then I tell you guys none of it.
This is probably because I spend practically every waking moment working on the graphic design of three different card games and the logistics of manufacturing them. Anyway, Jesse Schell takes the opposite approach and clearly explains the intersection of games and psychology, instead of keeping it to himself. Prisoners to External Rewards.
Paris is the new Valley.