What Will Matter In The Future? My talk from the recent Startupfest in Montreal.

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We have to have some idea of the world we are headed for sowhat we do will matter. It makes no sense to build a better mousetrap unless there will still be mice to trap. In this session, Stowe Boyd will explore some deep trends to help today’s startup entrepreneurs head in a profitable direction, like these:

  • It is the business of the future to be dangerous
  • Whatever the Web touches, it consumes
  • Technology is everything that was invented after you were thirteen
  • The next frontier will be the ruins of the unsustainable
  • The central economic imperative of the new economy is to amplify relationships.

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