2020 Startup Themes

Autonomy, 5G and other factors have created a relaxed regulatory environment for rada. Software-defined radio has become recently cheap enough for anyone to experiment.

Remote is in vogue and founders are rushing to build all parts of the distributed startup supply chain: Terminal helps generate remote teams, Tandem and There attempt to create a remote “office”, and Loom helps teams share their work over video.

3. The New Meme: Enterprise Search

The idea behind NoCode is to make a new abstraction for software engineering. Just like Javascript made programming more accessible to a broader audience.

What was previously oral knowledge will be automatically documented by machines.

2. Saying Yes to NoCode

8. Remote & Collaboration

Privacy might be the digital spinach: something you know that’s good for you, beloved by regulators, but not a primary driver for anyone but the most extreme health consumers.

The scene has become popular, and commensurate with that the quality has gone down. There’s an infinite number of fresh fund managers who will gladly deploy capital to these enterprise dabblers in the hopes of the team “figuring it out later”. Once an idea becomes popular, selection becomes harder.

5. The Privacy Headfake