Friday, May 16, 2008

10 Top Trends from the VC Community Perspective

Some things to ponder from the Churchill Club Meeting, May 14, 2008.

Data stored by different service providers will be combined to create more intelligent services.

Oil will have increasing difficulty competing with biofuels made from cheap nonfood crops for transportation.

Water technology will replace abating global warming as a global priority.

The mobile device industry's migration to smart phones will produce great disruption for big industry players.

Booming market for healthy aging technologies.

Four-fifths of the world population will carry mobile Internet devices within five to 10 years.

Algorithms will be constructed to develop new industrial chemicals, new biofuels and eventually artificial intelligence.

The mobile phone is your most important device.

There is going to be a venture capital shakeout.

Within five years everything that matters to you will be available on a device that fits on your belt or in your purse.

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