Whether investing or building a start-up, you need to catch a wave of change. Oddly enough these things are usually in plain site. The key is timing it exactly right (which involves a good deal of luck) and attacking it with a high degree of skill. Given this and the fact that I enjoy watching these things I’ve got this list of trends I think are surfable and I like keeping tabs on. They are in no particular order of importance. They do however fall into one or more of four species-level trends that I think are inevitable:
- humanity wants efficient energy sources,
- people across the globe want to connect with each other,
- computing is permeating everything, and
- global industries with ridiculous inefficiencies need to be “ruined” by the invisible hand of innovation.
The really interesting thing is that a number of these trends are connected.
| Surfable Trends | |
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Electric Cars |
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Biofuels |
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Battery technology |
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Commodities and other massive markets are ridiculously inefficient and, similar to the CDS market, will implode spectacularly if not fixed |
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Video |
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Semantic data (the Net starts to “think”) |
If you’ve got other waves I should be following shout out.
Hey Ed,
Here is a company to watch, they do biofuels and their name is Bodega, LLC.
Have a look………
http://web.media.mit.edu/~amanda/bodega/index.html
They are in the early startup phase and my buddy/mentor is the CTO.
All the best,
John