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Strange, almost no data-economy (collecting and selling user's data - the way "social" is monetized) or data-science startups.

A thin layer of encryption over cloud storages is a clever idea! And this is exactly how tech entrepreneurship should be - even if the project would fail due to non-technical reasons, the technology being developed could be reused and sold.

"Lifestyle startup" meme is crap.



> Today’s startups were focused on consumer, developer tools, security, hardware, marketplaces, and non-profit. We’ll see a different set tomorrow concentrated around enterprise, B2B, biotech, edtech, and fintech

From the article


I was also surprised. Almost no "machine learning" or "AI" startups. Maybe they are trying to regroup startups sector in theme, so maybe tomorrow?




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