Startup Trends 2016

VR is definitely trending. I'm working on a startup currently. I'm the technical and product side of a two person team. My business focused partner in passing asked if it would be possible to integrate VR into the platform. VR literally adds nothing, these trends can be toxic as they are productive.

Good to see blockchain pitches disappear.

But they'll probably come back after the halvening.

Any way, more room for the more useful blockchain products, if investors will still have an ear for it.

AI and Machine Learning weren't mentioned. Neither were DevOps or systems-y/database-y types.

The problem with understanding trends is that people naturally tend to think that the past predicts the future. What they forget is that what goes up, usually goes down. This is true in the vast majority of cases except for certain occasions (rise of internet, mobile, cloud). This is why hype such as 3d printing, VR, AI, IoT, chat bots, are just that -- hype, until we arrive at the point in time where the exact necessary breakthrough occurs for each, but I don't see it yet in many of todays cases.