Joel Liu's List: Trends

• 4) Venture capitalism will be redefined. The mix of the plunging cost of doing a software startup and companies like Ycombinator and others will force VC's to move into greentech and away from software. VC's will face financial problems due to a slump in the market and at least one major VC will tank.
• More Linux on the desktop, mostly via netbooks.
• The era of subscription-based consumer internet services will begin.

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