Playing with New Technologies
One of the best ways to become entrepreneurial is to constantly play with new toys. The best toys are the newest technology platforms with APIs available to 3rd parties. If the platform grows, your 3rd party addon will inherit that growth, though you will incur a corresponding platform risk.
Our company began because one of our co-founders is always going deep with new things. He is amazingly aware of what important software trends are about to emerge. Our business began as he recognized the future of computing depended upon heterogeneous systems.
It takes effort to pay attention to new apps, website services, or devices. It takes skill to efficiently select the most promising ones for your time and money.
It’s especially important to play with new toys in a market you can reasonably target. Playing with new technology toys means living with a certain tolerance for broken things.
Paul Graham calls this “living in the future.” David Cummings talks about the joy of new ideas.
Lately I’m interested in browser technologies, 3D printing, wearable computing, bitcoins, fitbit products, tesla model s, and cloud computing. I would like to be more interested in space technologies and family history technologies.
I am not interested in local commerce apps (like Yelp, Airbnb, Uber), social networking tech, music/entertainment tech, or anything involving selling beverage (typically beer or coffee).
What new technologies have you been playing with recently?
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