Friends of Dave - Stuff I Learned This Week - Predictions Edition
It's a New Year, and seems like everyone from well known pundits to the blogerati all have an opinion on what's going to be happening in 2017. So instead of you having to sift through what is total BS and not, I thought I would present a compilation of good "prediction" and "pensively reflective" reads. Enjoy!
XOXO,
Dave
For The Startup Geeks....
What I learned from a year of publishing on LinkedIn — fixthepitch.pellucid.com In 2016, I published 40 articles on LinkedIn Pulse about investment banking and creating pitchbooks. Here's what I learned.
The Top 6 Posts of 2016 — tomtunguz.com Tomasz Tunguz is a venture capitalist at Redpoint and writes about startups, fund raising, SaaS companies, and best practices for founders.
Our Year of Growth: Putting service first is the key to success | Q4 Blog — www.q4blog.com I've always believed that technology is what makes us competitive, but service is how we win. Q4 grew more in 2016 than in any other year, and we did it by
For The Deep Thinkers...
What Did And Did Not Happen In 2016 – AVC
As has become his practice, VC Fred Wilson looks back on the prior year and reflects on how it turned out vs. how he thought it would
What Will Happen in 2017 - AVC — avc.com
VC Fred Wilson prognosticates what is to come in 2017
Predictions 2017: Tech Industry Backlash, Trump Leaves Twitter, Snap Sours + 7 More — shift.newco.co
Renowned entrepreneur and media guy John Battelle provides his big thoughts on 2017.
For The FinTech Geeks...
Nine Things That Could Happen Next Year — The Financial Revolutionist — www.thefinancialrevolutionist.com 2016 was a bad year for most prognosticators. As such, we’re bringing a humble attitude to the table for our nine predictions for 2017. After all, we could be right on the call, and wrong on it materializing within the next 365 days. Conversely, we could be wrong on our underlying assumption, but predict correctly thanks to a so-called ‘slop shot’ (i.e., a lucky shot in pool). So, with that in mind, let’s play nine-ball.
2017 Fintech Predictions – the year of macro risks | FiniCulture — finiculture.com It is this time of year again where most of us willingly and willfully make fools out of ourselves trying to predict the future of our industry. The momentous
4 Industry Experts Weigh in on FinTech Predictions for 2017 | Let's Talk Payments — letstalkpayments.com This article from Lets Talk Payments is about 4 industry experts weigh in on FinTech predictions for 2017.
4 Payments Predictions for 2017: Mobile, Fintech and EMV — www.fico.com This year I’m doing something different: I’m predicting what won’t happen in the coming 12 months.
For The Marketing Geeks....
The Goals, Priorities and Success Metrics that Shifted for Marketers in 2016 [SOPM Report] — www.bizible.com A comparison of 2015 and 2016 State of Pipeline Marketing data to highlight marketing growth over the last year.
Five CX Pillars CMOs Should Prioritise In 2017 — www.cmo.com “Customer experience is the new marketing,” according to ex-Mercedes-Benz USA president and CEO Steve Cannon. The need to make it seamless and connected is more important than ever before.
For the Data Geeks...
The 52 Best — And Weirdest — Charts We Made In 2016 | FiveThirtyEight — fivethirtyeight.com In addition to a number of interactive graphics and updating dashboards, this year we published almost 1,000 charts and maps on FiveThirtyEight. Here are 52 of …
And Now, Something Random...
A Selection of the 30 Most Disappointing Under 30 - The New Yorker — www.newyorker.com Bess Kalb jokes about the underwhelming qualifications of some of the millennials who made the “30 Most Disappointing Under 30” list.
The Top Secret Life of College Mascots — www.espn.com They are requested for funerals and bachelorette parties. (They decline.) They are back-flipping, wakeboarding cult heroes. And they can't give their last names. Welcome to the world of mascots.