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Vintage Future
March 12, 2010
Predicting technological trends – let alone profit-making opportunities within those trends – is not for the weak at heart. Here are a few brave & bold predictions from the past:
Even if you predict the trend, and the profitable opportunity within the trend, correctly – there’s still the matter of protecting the IP.
BPV sees its capital as a “growth accelerator” for established, rapidly growing businesses with strong management teams. We prefer to focus our efforts on assessing competitive and execution risk rather than product or business model risk, and we want to see tangible evidence of the unique value offered by a company’s product or service.
UPDATE: 5/19/2010
Chef of the Future: “Yes – it can core a apple.”
