Platforms for innovation

• Virtual reality
• Internet of things
• Wearable computers
• Cryptocurrencies / blockchain
• Self-driving cars
• Drones
• Brain-computer interfaces
• 3d printing
• Augmented reality
• Open data
• Synthetic biology
• Satellites
• Injectibles
• Nanotech

Platform may not be an appropriate descriptor for everything on the list, but it’s a good list none-the-less. At Forward Partners we are laser focused on early stage ecommerce for now, but that will run out and at some point we will change to a new area and it may well be one of these. Timing will, of course, be key. Being too early to a trend is as bad as being too late.