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Or to put it another way - 2013, a year that opened up myrriad opportunities for disruption. Mobile device penetration reached a point where we can rely upon t
by bdfh42 13y ago
Or to put it another way - 2013, a year that opened up myrriad opportunities for disruption.
Mobile device penetration reached a point where we can rely upon the platform for application distribution.
Wearables continued to look for a compelling app.
Former giants continued to make way for new technologies and companies.
M&A replaced innovation in big companies (great for the rest of us).
Technology leaders continued to be pr$$$s (so whats new?)
Social Media - again achieved platform status - ready to be used, abused and replaced.
Media (and bitcoin) blah blah
NSA and GCHQ screw up the initial cloud business model and (again) open up new opportunities.
Pretty good start point for a great 2014 I would say
- Paul_S 13y agoForgive the flippancy but it looks to me you'd see WW III as an opportunity for entrepreneurial people. Step back and have a look yourself.
- taybin 13y agoWouldn't it be? All those rations to hoard and trade...
- samelawrence 13y agoWWII (or any other time of turmoil) was a huge opportunity for some entrepreneurs, and we needed them to restore order and stability after the conflict. Obviously there was some profiteering, but I don't see it as inherently wrong to look at times of trouble as opportunities.
- kristopolous 13y agohttp://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family#The_Napoleonic_Wars http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family#The_Napoleo... is my favorite example of this. brilliant at every move - like some chess grandmaster of business.
- bowlofpetunias 13y agoSo now we're rewriting post-WWII history to glorify entrepreneurs even further? If anything, most efforts and programs that resulted in the remarkably fast restoration of countries ruined by the war would today be labelled as examples of "socialist" big government.
- bdfh42 13y agoI suppose it is possible that one of the items featured in the post resulted in some personal loss to yourself - commiserations if that was so. I think that most of us are always on the look out for gaps and opportunities to make some headway in this world. Thus the marginal (on a global scale) misfortunes of some ultra large businesses are likely to be seen as a positive from the perspective of a smaller more agile enterprise. I know that my 2014 project is all about running rings around the established players in a major market place. I do not apologise for relishing the prospect.