As Covid-19 vaccinations increase globally, life is getting back to normal. However, it's no longer the world we experienced before the pandemic. The long-term nature of this global crisis has changed customer needs and daily lifestyles. This will, in turn, change what I expect the world to look like in 2022 and beyond. Let's review the top 10 technology and business trends that we'll likely encounter in the coming year.

Remember this time about two years ago? It might as well have been 50 years ago, to be honest — the world as we knew it seems to have dissipated. For product managers, 2020 was about identifying pandemic-related customer challenges, and 2021 was about solving them. In 2022, product managers now have a solid foundation to drive unprecedented innovation. To do that, however, they have to move with collaboration, efficiency and curiosity.

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If you want people to invest in your idea, then my best advice is first write a business plan, and keep it simple. Don't confuse your business plan with a doctoral thesis or the back of a napkin. Keep the wording and formatting straightforward, and keep the plan short. For minimum content, see my original article “These 10 Key Elements Make a Business Plan Fundable.”

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Do founder-CEOs have an expiration date? In the wake of Jack Dorsey’s resignation from Twitter, some have begun asking whether the move could herald a new era, in which founders voluntarily step aside rather than sticking around for decades or waiting to be ousted. To explore the value added by a founder-CEO, the authors analyzed stock price and financial performance data from more than 2,000 publicly traded companies. They found that on average, founder-led firms outperform those with non-founder-CEOs — but that the difference dwindles to zero just three years post-IPO, after which founder-CEOs actually start detracting from firm value. Given these findings, they offer three strategies to help investors, boards, and executive teams support founders in transitioning out of the CEO role when the time is right, and ultimately argue that Dorsey’s decision may have been more prescient than many realized.

The past couple of years have seen rapid shifts in consumer behavior. With the pandemic still rearing its head worldwide, the unpredictability doesn’t show signs of stopping. For marketers, 2022 will surely be another year that challenges their ability to get closer to the ever-changing consumer and find their next waves of growth. To better understand the tides of consumer sentiment as we head into the new year, Attest went straight to the source to learn what’s top of mind for the American consumer in 2022 and how these priorities are shaping the digital marketing landscape.

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Marketing software landscape architecture is one of the key components of good software design. It is the process by which a product’s utility, performance, features, and other elements are determined within a business environment. This landscape can be visualized by using landscape design software or by making a graph or map using tools that are readily available.

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The other day on Twitter, someone made the observation asked, "How you feel about Elon Musk is how you feel about yourself." At least one reader enthusiastically agreed. "That is how I feel about myself!" wrote Elon Musk. "Oh wait …"

If it seems like Musk is in your head as much as he seems to be on his own – there is a good reason. He is reported to be the richest man in the world, is doing comedy on network television and at the end of the year has been racking up honors like Time's Person of the Year, the FT's Person of the Year, and induction into Newsweek's Disruptor Hall of Fame.

Warren Buffett is a legendary US investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway . This Monday he had a conversation with the co-founder of the startup VoiceFlow, Michael Hood, in which he advised young people on how they can earn 50% more than they already do.

TUCSON, AZ / ACCESSWIRE / December 16, 2021 / AURP, a 35-year global nonprofit membership organization serving research park communities, innovation districts and regional technology hubs, today congratulated the 60 jurisdictions winning $500,000 Regional Challenge planning grants from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA).

“On behalf of the AURP membership, we are delighted to congratulate the EDA awardees across the U.S.,” said Leah Burton, AURP President and Director, Centennial Campus Partnership Office at North Carolina State University.

Brands are people first. Customers are people too, so customers tend to take their relationship with a brand personally. Thus it’s not a surprise that people love their favorite smartphone brand, cringe when you mention their cable company, or even hate the mention of a particular bank.

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There is a common misconception about today’s entrepreneurs, with the mainstream media regularly portraying them as younger recent graduates. While there are certainly many brilliant entrepreneurs in their 20s who are building disruptive and lasting companies, the truth is, the middle-aged, mid-career entrepreneur is more common than we think. Harvard Business Review found that the average age of a high-growth startup founder is 45. That’s across the board. If we look at the inventors of the true unicorns, the billion-dollar founders, the story is similar. According to the book Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups, the median age of founders of billion-dollar companies was 34, which means that half were older, with the oldest topping out at 68.

Startup markets around the world are heating up, and more investors are competing against each other for the best deals. In the scuffle, VCs are turning to scouts to do the legwork, but that has meant being yet another step removed from their founders. Investors have already been signing the dotted line without meeting entrepreneurs in person.

I’ve sat at both sides of the table as a founder and a VC, and I understand how difficult it is to get them on the same page. However, I believe that accelerators can be the glue bringing the two together.

Bain Capital has closed a mammoth $3B fund to invest in U.S. property, including life sciences real estate, a sign of the incredible appetite for lab assets and other more specialized sectors including industrial and entertainment properties.

With leverage, the fund has the potential to invest nearly $9B, Bloomberg reports. 

Image: Courtesy of Longfellow A new $3B Bain fund seeks to invest in U.S. property, including life sciences assets like BioPoint in San Diego.

Earlier this week, the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) announced the phase I winners of the Build Back Better Regional Challenge. Each of the 60 awardees receive $500,000 to support their region and cluster — and begin the process of competing for one of the 20-30 phase II awards that can be up to $100 million each.

According to an EDA fact sheet, finalists are located in 42 states and Puerto Rico and include 15 indigenous communities. EDA also reports that the clusters receiving the most awards are: “agriculture and natural resources;” “information technology;” “energy and resilience;” “advanced manufacturing;” and, “biotechnology and biomanufacturing.”

As a long-time business advisor and mentor to entrepreneurs, I’ve always been impressed with the few who seem to always come out ahead, no matter what the challenge. It seems to be more a function of mindset and principles, more than education or natural ability. I’m convinced that we all have a similar potential, if we practice the right principles and persevere through thick and thin.

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I started out as a programmer in the early 2000s. Soon I realized that the future for me was in remote work, and made a website that allows people to offer their work and for companies to find employees. Then I sold it, and, having learned from my mistakes, made the next one, with the focus on out-staffing and outsourcing. It seems like it was just a few years ago, but now I have 15,000 remote employees under my supervision, although I have never studied as either a manager or an entrepreneur. The journey was long and painful. Here are some tips I would give myself if I could start over now.

Dublin, Dec. 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Cloud Computing in Industrial IoT: Market for Cloud support of IIoT by Software, Platforms, Infrastructure (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS) including Centralized Cloud Edge Computing for Devices and Things 2021 - 2026" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

This report evaluates the technologies, players, and solutions relied upon for cloud computing in IIoT. The report analyzes the impact of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS upon IIoT as well as cloud computing software, platforms, and infrastructure in support of edge computing.

Nothing in tech is certain—in the earliest days of 2020, few industry experts would have predicted that the focus for tech professionals in the coming months would be on the rapid deployment of tools to support widespread remote work. Still, barring unforeseen developments, leaders in the tech industry can usually spot upcoming trends. 

From the continued technical support needed for remote and hybrid work to new technologies to serve customers to potential cautionary tales, the members of Forbes Technology Council have noted several topics that we may be seeing and reading about in the months ahead. Below, 15 of them share the tech trends they believe will dominate business and consumer life in 2022, and why.

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The boom in surgical robotics has improved patient recovery times and reflects the nuanced areas of technological development investors might be overlooking.

That’s according to Citywire A-rated Michael Li, who runs the American Century Advanced Medical fund, which was launched as a Ucits product in January of this year.

‘Robotics technology firms can sustain very good procedure growth and comes with a positive social impact. The opportunities are huge but robotic surgery penetration versus the classic surgery is still at 10%,’ Li told Citywire Selector.