It’s 112 Slides but the summary is simple: mobile is where it’s at. Here’s a round up of the companies (mainly hot start-ups) and innovations in various industries that she mentions in her report:
1. Life stories: Facebook’s Timeline
2. News/Information Flow: Twitter
3. Note taking: Evernote
4. Drawing: Paper by Fiftythree
5. Photography: Instagr.am/Camera+/Hipstamatic
6. Diaries: Path
7. Scrapbooking: Pinterest
8. Magazines: Flipboard
9. Books: Kindle/iBooks
10. Music: Spotify
11. Sound Recording: SoundCloud
12. Video: YouTube/Netflix
13. Video Creation/Production: SocialCam/Viddy/GoPro
14. TV: YouTube/Bleacher Team Stream
15. Communication: Voxer
16. Navigation: Waze
17. Sports: Bleacher Report
18. Home Improvement: Houzz/One Kings Lane
19. Cabs: Uber
20. Yellow Pages: Yelp
21. Coupons/Local Services: Groupon
22. Cash registers: Square
23. Window shopping: Fab
24. Marketplaces: Etsy
25. Manufacturing: Zazzle/Shapeways
26. Personal Services: Zaarly/TaskRabbit/Fiverr
27. Funding: KickStarter
28. Lending: Lending Club
29. Business Collaboration: Salesforce/Yammer/Jive
30. Recruiting/Hiring: LinkedIn
31. Focus Groups: Affectiva
32. Signatures: DocuSign
33. Healthcare Access: ZocDoc/Teladoc
34. Education: Codecademy/Coursera/Khan Academy
35. Rewards/Satisfaction: Klout/FourSquare/Zynga
36. Crime Awareness: Crime Mapping
37. Thermostats: Nest
Areas where she didn’t identify a company? Data – companies that can find a “needle in a haystack” or as I would put it, derive meaning from large data sets. Looks like a big opportunity there.
Finally, it will be interesting to see where all these companies are one year from now. You’ll still be reading here, right?


