Fred Wilson- A VC- Musings of a VC in NYC
Fred is a long term NYC based VC who funded some of the late 90's Silicon Alley ventures. I noted somebody mentioned Seth Godin above. As Flatiron Partners Fred Wilson was a funder behind Seth's Yoyodyne online marketing company that was sold to Yahoo.
On Fred's blog is a post about "Disruption" and link to the video of a presentation recently given at Google surveying industries and where opportunities for investing in disruption exist. It is highly recommended viewing for a look ahead.
"The future of digital culture-yours, mine, and ours-depends on how well we learn to use the media that have infiltrated, amplified, distracted, enriched, and complicated our lives. How you employ a search engine, stream video from your phonecam, or update your Facebook status matters to you and everyone, because the ways people use new media in the first years of an emerging communication regime can influence the way those media end up being used and misused for decades to come. Instead of confining my exploration to whether or not Google is making us stupid, Facebook is commoditizing our privacy, or Twitter is chopping our attention into microslices (all good questions), I've been asking myself and others how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and above all mindfully. This book is about what I've learned."
The value of bots for the enterprise user is only just becoming clear. Enterprise bots will likely be used to augment intelligence in the context of conversations, push relevant information to employees, and optimize workflows.
"In the next few months, there will be hundreds of millions of Android and iOS devices that are able to provide augmented reality experiences - meaning you'll be able to look at the world through your phone, and place digital objects wherever you look. "
"Augmented reality might not be able to cure cancer (yet), but when combined with a machine learning algorithm, it can help doctors diagnose the disease."
"Unleash your team's creativity with Jamboard. Sketch your ideas, whiteboard-style, while benefiting from the access and connectivity of an interactive canvas. Drop images, add notes and pull assets directly from the web while collaborating with team members from anywhere."
"The Echo - a cylindrical speaker with microphone - now accounts for just over 70% of all digital assistant use in the US, leaving its nearest competitor, Google Home, well behind."
"For problems that are original, whose answers are not already known, and that require intuition, judgment and ingenuity, you need people. Smart people who not only know how to search, but who have the expertise and judgment to know whether what they've found is most relevant to solving the problem at hand."
Today we face an entirely new environment
for innovation and getting things done.
The days of the lone genius quietly toiling
away in pursuit of that 'Eureka' moment
to revolutionise an industry are all but
over. We are now in the days of asking and
listening to our customers and working
with them in our innovation cycles.
Innovation demands collaboration. So does
production. In the past we could focus on
a single task in an assembly-line fashion,
handing our completed activity to the next
person who would in turn do the same,
until the job was finished. Now the jobs
change fast, requiring learning new skills
rather than merely repeating the old. We
have to seek out people who have other
pieces of the puzzle and work with them
to tackle increasingly complex issues at a
much faster pace.
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