Hipmunk. Welcome. BERG. S top 10 tech trends of 2011 (vote for your favorite) As we begin 2011, optimism is on the upswing. And we’ll need it: The technology industry has a lot of potential, as embodied in these 10 trends we’re seeing, but it will take continued growth — and a lot of hard work — to make them happen. What do you think of our crystal ball-gazing? Vote for your favorite trend in our poll at the end. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. One big question is whether Jobs can figure out how to make apps on the TV work via the company’s Apple TV platform. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. And here are a few honorable mentions: Cloud computing goes big — Cloud computing services are likely to grow from $68.3 billion in 2010 to $148.8 billion in 2014.
Cyber warfare erupts across the web — Just as WikiLeaks promised it was just getting started with document leaks, cyber warfare is also in its infancy. Emerging markets drive tech adoption — The days are long gone when users in emerging countries embraced older technology. Be sure to weigh in below and explain your vote in the comments: Today | KillerStartups.com™
Fringe planning. The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups. October 2006 In the Q & A period after a recent talk, someone asked what made startups fail. After standing there gaping for a few seconds I realized this was kind of a trick question. It's equivalent to asking how to make a startup succeed—if you avoid every cause of failure, you succeed—and that's too big a question to answer on the fly.
Afterwards I realized it could be helpful to look at the problem from this direction. If you have a list of all the things you shouldn't do, you can turn that into a recipe for succeeding just by negating. In a sense there's just one mistake that kills startups: not making something users want. 1. Have you ever noticed how few successful startups were founded by just one person? What's wrong with having one founder? But even if the founder's friends were all wrong and the company is a good bet, he's still at a disadvantage. The last one might be the most important. 2. Startups prosper in some places and not others. Why is the falloff so sharp? 3. 4.
Web 2.0. Intermediary Platforms Research & Development platforms Innocentive – open innovation problem solvingIdeaConnection – idea marketplace and problem solvingYet2.com – IP market placePRESANS (beta) – connect and solve R&D problemsHypios – online problem solvingInnoget – research intermediary platformOne Billion Minds – online (social) challengesNineSigma – technology problem solvingIdeaken – collaborative crowdsourcingInnovation-community.de – Community of innovators & creators.
Marketing, Design & Idea platforms Collective Intelligence & Prediction platforms Lumenogic – collective intelligence marketsUshahidi – crowdsourcing crisis informationKaggle – data mining and forecastingWe Are Hunted – the online music chartGoogle Image Labeler – crowdsourced image labeling HR & Freelancers platforms TopCoder – competition-based software crowdsourcingSpudaroo – crowdsourcing copywritingClickworker – small online task solvingAmazon Mechanical Turk – low-cost crowdsourcing Open innovation software 478Shares. Evaluating the Tech Start-up Incubators. It seems as if a new incubator programs is starting up on a daily basis. In New York City alone, the following programs are kicking off their Spring / Summer programs: I am sure there are more that I am not even aware (if there are others PLEASE LET ME KNOW).
What is telling is that the trend further demonstrates the strength of the NYC start-up technology community. The incubators are only now starting to realize the void that has existed in NYC for programs to help early stage start-ups. In fact over the past year, incubators have sprouted up all over NYC across all sorts of industries from clean tech to fashion to food to health care. I wholeheartedly believe that a quality program can be a significant factor in guiding the success of entrepreneurs.
By fostering mentorship, facilitating important connections and passing on core skills, they provide a foundation that helps reduce the uncertainty and risk associated in the early stages.
Hacker News. Start. 10 European Startups To Watch in 2011. When you hear Silicon Valley discuss the European startup scene it’s often negatively. Some say that the investors aren’t brave enough, some say the entrepreneurs aren’t bold enough. Whether there’s any truth in these accusations or not, the fact is that there are startups across Europe that are brimming with original ideas and creativity. Following on from our 10 Exciting European Startups from 2010, here are 10 startups to look out for in 2011. Pearltrees Visitors to the LeWeb conference last month couldn’t have failed to spot Pearltrees.
Pearltrees makes organising groups of links to content incredibly easy. Recent additions to the service include real-time group collaboration and a touch-screen based interface which will be ported to the iPad soon. Planely The idea behind Planely is a certainly niche one, but the Danish startup could well be onto something that frequent air travellers will love. Geomium LikeOurselves Storific Datasift SuperMarmite Viewdle Screach Shutl. Accelerator Finalists | SXSW.com. MEDIA STARTUPS. Alex Bogusky's FearLess Revolution - FearLess Blog - Introducing?COMMON. Watch as Alex Bogusky, Rob Schuham and John Bielenberg present COMMON, and follow along with the deck below (Download PDF). We’re confident that benefiting people, communities, society, the environment and future generations is the new advantage in business. We’re launching the COMMON brand in support of this transition from competitive advantage to collaborative advantage. COMMON is one part community; one part business prototyper; and one part collaborative brand.
A living network of creative people rapidly prototyping dozens or hundreds of progressive businesses designed to solve social problems. Social Media Sites as Talent Incubators. The line that may have defined the ‘80’s culturally – “I want my MTV” – was Sting’s vocal contribution to Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing,” the band’s most successful single from their cart-topping “Brothers in Arms” album. Twenty-five years later (that’s right you older folks, twenty-five years), the refrain might rather seems to have been reversed. “MTV Wants You,” it turns out. Bloomberg News reports that the pioneering cable music video channel released its ‘MTV Music Meter’ on December 14.
The new web service “scans social networks for bands generating an increasing number of comments,” and is intended “to re-associate and new-associate the MTV brand with music,” according to MTV Network’s head of digital operations, Dermot McCormick. Music Meter will provide “music videos and 30-second samples of tracks” of the most-discussed established and (hopefully) emerging stars, with full songs available for purchase on-site. Startup 2.0 - 2010. This is the web right now. Entelliz.co. Business Networking | Ecademy.
Business lawyer and business solicitor London Law firm – Keystone Law, UK. HackFwd. Springboard The Startup Accelerator. Seedcamp. TechHub -