What will be the trends of start-up (domestic) next year?

Question

Startups

What will be in demand? What technologies are technical (sorry for the tautology) and social? What will arise (already formed?) the real needs of people in the network?
And tell me, if possible, any good (authoritative) materials on this topic - next year's trends, promising startups, etc. Interestingly, it is worthwhile thoughts, because rating articles from Vasya P. are not a problem to google

Answer 1

You realize one simple thought - a startup is a business. New directions for business carefully described in serious studies? Rarity. You can google the dumbest queries, like "trends it business 2014" and you will get the results of newspapers - this is the optimal ratio of your laziness and getting more or less high-quality information. Frankly, you will be surprised in 2015 that half of shit is not a trend, and half has just started to grow.
What should you look for? Market research (Gartner, Accenture, etc.), read tech crunch and other startup sites daily, and subscribe to magazines and newspapers like HBR/INC/Fortune/Entrepreneur (wisely - otherwise it makes no sense at all).
- explore new startups
- it is not always worth looking for a new super direction, trying to create a market and demand - at the moment there are a lot of untouched hidden niches with potential already warm consumers prepared by previous innovations

Answer 2

Agree with the answer above. Do not look for authoritative materials where they chew on trends and promising startups. Analyze the current ones, especially the failed ones - for what reason they failed. Those that "take off", you already know about them. Always try to understand what is the current demand of the mass consumer. It cannot change abruptly and abruptly, it can be predicted. New technologies create new problems, marketers have already taught us this. Innovations in everyday life turn into demand for the weaknesses that have arisen in them. Take any killer features in smartphones or even a banal race of CPU frequency / cores / ram volume / interfaces with frills and whistles / screen size in the end. More beautiful interface => more load on the percent. More resolution => more powerful video. More diagonal => more capacious batteries.
From the technical side, I think this is a search for a new interface, for example, for wasps. True, startups do not have enough strength to create a full-fledged creation, but those who can change the paradigm of thinking and get away from the usual WIMP will be able to offer something conceptual. And in this we now have complete stagnation. Take this post , with what dissatisfaction the majority perceived the items: "Window operating system", "Mouse" (and others too).
Problems with wi-fi are immediately remembered, the 2.4 channel is clogged, soon everyone will switch to 5 GHz, but it catches worse as a shorter wave, and they will kill it.
Web design is constantly transforming, and its influence on ordinary users is getting stronger, as they are less dependent on local machines. This, again, is a consequence of previous innovations: sync, mobile OS, app and home OS ecosystems, cloud computing and data storage.
Search algorithms will improve, but will not keep up with the avalanche of human-produced content. I well remember the comment from habr:

Any algorithm is found in Wikipedia or special literature in a very short time, tell me, why keep them all in your head, it's not a garbage dump.
I am deeply convinced that the value of an employee is determined not by the number of algorithms in the head, but by the ability to work with information, find it and quickly deal with it.
Kapitsa senior took exams in the library, take whatever you like, but manage to find it and explain it.
The need to absorb new information.

Psychologists increasingly associate the disorder of the ability to long-term concentration precisely with the abuse of reading Internet news and frequent use of smartphones (such a dynamic way of obtaining information in micro-doses is now called by Americans as snacks - this is a kind of fast food for the mind).
Most often in practice, this manifests itself as a chronic inability to complete the work begun, frequent forgetting what you did a minute ago, difficulty reading books and a constant desire to be distracted by something new.

We have created such a complex, rapidly changing, and information overloaded environment that we must increasingly deal with information overload in the same way that animals we have long surpassed.
Robert Chaldini. "Psychology of Influence"

Indeed , the future trend in IT is the fight against the like.
I apologize for the confusion and the spreading thought, after all, December 31 .. :)
Happy New Year to you!

Answer 3

Why look for a trend when you can create one? :)