I like the addition of categories in "BioTech" and "HardTech" ;)
In exporting the Silicon Valley model of risk capital across the globe it's essential to understand the history behind it that has yielded such outsized successes. The free-thinking creative environment of SF, academic partnerships, big institutions such as Google and Apple, as well as access to startup capital.
The best place to start a company in 2018: online. Translating this entire culture to its digital analogues is essential to this mission. And although many of the components are already here. It requires a nudge to localize it and get it into the hands of future innovators.
One interesting development is the emergence of decentralized apps such as Mastodon, Steemit, PeerTube, IPFS, etc. We are already witnessing in real-time a boom and bust cycle in raising private capital via ICOs. But eventually I think we will see a peer-to-peer lending platform, possibly denominated in crypto, that specifically targets micro-finance for startup formation.
In exporting the Silicon Valley model of risk capital across the globe it's essential to understand the history behind it that has yielded such outsized successes. The free-thinking creative environment of SF, academic partnerships, big institutions such as Google and Apple, as well as access to startup capital.
The best place to start a company in 2018: online. Translating this entire culture to its digital analogues is essential to this mission. And although many of the components are already here. It requires a nudge to localize it and get it into the hands of future innovators.
One interesting development is the emergence of decentralized apps such as Mastodon, Steemit, PeerTube, IPFS, etc. We are already witnessing in real-time a boom and bust cycle in raising private capital via ICOs. But eventually I think we will see a peer-to-peer lending platform, possibly denominated in crypto, that specifically targets micro-finance for startup formation.