MY year in review

@geoffworthA year in review you can read about anywhere. MY year in review is only here…

What I experienced for the year, the lessons I think I have learned, what’s next…

January

Bubbles…

AT&T Developer Summit – day before CES 2013. If you can spot the 2 AT&T execs then special award…. The none exec wrote a WebRTC app that would not allow you to make bad calls dependent on your nasty brainwaves…. He won. Telecom is a 2.6 Trillion dollar industry. Say hello to the internet – all change!

February

Eco-system…

Mobile World Congress, 2013, Barcelona.Working left to rightBubble one. Hotel room. No bar in hotel. Go to bar next door Bar has no kitchen. Restaurant next door…Lesson of a brilliant ecosystem – you can do but never do unless core to what you are trying to do…. – obvious!

March

Streaming…

http://www.instantshift.com/2010/01/23/user-experience-of-the-real-time-web/

The web is dead. It has moved real time. It has moved into the now. The semantic web didn’t work. What we want to know is what is happening right now. What are people speaking about. What are people are doing?

We move into “LIVING IN THE NOW”

April

Nothing to lose…http://techonomy.com/conf/13-lab/your-life-is-in-the-ioe/your-life-is-in-the-internet-of-everything/

Techonomy. Me and THE Gordon Bell. Before going on stage I asked him what he thought of the panel before. He simply said “Bullshit!”. It was a great conversation. Lesson: Work with people who have nothing to lose since they normally lose less than those who think they do…

May

So obvious…

Elon Musk at All Things D. He founded SpaceX. He said he looked at the economics of building rockets. 0.3% of total cost is fuel. About 2% is actual construction materials. He concluded there must be an easier way to put one together…

Lesson: Is there an easier way?

http://allthingsd.com/tag/elon-musk/

June

Trust…

When I was growing up Snowdon was a mountain in WalesOur lives are dependent on the integrity of data stored online. And today we have no way to prove that data is true other than trusting the people that hold it for us.

Lesson: Change this!

July

Wearables or Disposables?

The year of the start of wearables that feel more like disposables. Software guys building hardware… 40% return rate for Jawbone Ups. These things are not cheap

Lesson: Realize hardware is different. If you do it, do it well

August

Solve big problems…

Glow. Max Levchin, co-founder of paypal. Could have done another internet social media start up but he wanted to solve something big. How about the fertility of mankind.The way we treat infertility is “mired in the 15th C”.

Lesson: Solve big problems, WE NOW CAN!

September

RIP Nokia 1982 - 2013

10 years ago Nokia’s market cap was $245B, about the same as Apple todayThey sold to Microsoft for less than Skype.

2 Lessons:1) Avoid guys that look

like this2) Take care of your

business irrespective of size, before #1 does

October

Utilization…

Cars are not used on average for 22 hours every dayThe only asset Uber has is a networked mobile application, and algorithms to connect people with close transport.

Lesson: Put mobile at the core of your business, think what assets you really need

November

Legal…

Society cannot keep up with the rate of change. It has always been true.

Lesson: Legal change. Understand it. It can be a benefit and also a liability. Look up red flag laws and realize we are in the same space…

December

1918 - 2013

Some things never change. Integrity, belief, passion, honesty, forgiveness, humanity.

Be a part of the good that has

always existed that needs to always

exist more

2014 Prediction

Thank you

Finally my prediction going forward…

2014 will the year of big people acting small and small people acting big and the only important thing in all of this is people

THANK YOU! And have a great holiday season