2018 Start-UPS Saga Disclosed Early

Find out if it’s a happy time for the start-ups this 2017.

- Thenmozhi Shanmugam

2016 has been an intense year for everyone around the world of startups; from trying to get off the ground, raise follow-on funding, series A crunch, unprecedented US presidential election results, volatility of the market, stock prices of IPO'ed startup going down in such volatility, almost everything which could go down the drain went down. Personally one can say with relief thank god it's over, every year brings an opportunity to turn a new leaf and look around us, embrace a fresh start.

Happy New Year everyone! 2017 is going to be fantastic market timing to start anything worthwhile. It's going to be a Hyper-Connecting World, we had 1.8 billion people connected in 2010, today we are about 3 Billion people & estimated by current rates by 2022-25, we are going to be about 8 billion almost every human on the planet will be on the internet & working. Global borders are coming off, Cross cultural talent is flowing, homes are getting automated, robots are taking over machine line jobs, artificial intelligence taking over conventional CRM solutions, thus technology is truly replacing every aspect of our connected lives.

In this issue let's paint the backdrop of overarching trends which will define some category defining companies which will be exciting to watch over the year. Let us define a few of them in simplest of terms for everyone to understand better.

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