Locked and Loaded: Now Is the Time to Build in Greater Southeast Asia
If you are a relatively young founder born around 1975 or later, you have been through two waves of tech boom and bust in the Internet economy.
Looking around at some headlines in tech blogs, you might be under the impression that all tech is over, and we have hit a wall. Well, that’s normal.
But something is cooking under the surface.
Economists and some VC investors argue that today we are in a phase of a cycle leading to a new boom.
Carlotta Perez argues that in the period starting around 2013 we entered an investing and building period called “the deployment phase,” where innovations are readily available to masses, and where founders can build smaller things but distribute them widely due to a glut of tech infrastructure built during the recent boom.
In GSEA, demand for devices and services reachable through mobile broadband are creating a slow and steady build up into the next wave. Innovation is “normal.”
But under the surface, a challenge to normalcy waits. Jerry Neumann writes about this, here:
“If things are always changing, then there is never an end to history, and many of the things you’ve learned as deep underlying truths are actually subject to being overturned at any time. Everything you’ve learned in your career has to be re-examined every once in awhile to see if it will be as true in the future as it was in the past.”
Blog reference here: http://bit.ly/deployAW
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