Fred Wilson predicts 2015: Millet strength to enter the U.S. market

for the development of the business

1.1 Billion dollar unicorns, such as Uber, Airbnb, Dropbox and so on, have grown over the past five years, and investors will be willing to hold shares in these companies and inject money into them, so they will also have a wave of new acquisitions for business development.

2. Millet, which has just completed 1.1 billion dollars in financing, is likely to use part of the money to penetrate the U.S. market. If millet enters the U.S. market, it will bring an Android system without Google services to the US, while bringing a new mobile OS power to the Western world. The good news is that it's not much different for developers to develop applications for millet and to develop apps for Google's version of Android.

3, Asia's mobile internet services strong access to the U.S. market, may start in similar to line and micro-letter such as IM applications, because now is visible, they have in the U.S. IM market has a decent market share.

4. While the 2014 Facebook big takeover of Oculus Rift has cheered confidence in virtual reality, it is likely that the VR will suffer setbacks by next year, and that Oculus is likely to have difficulties in selling consumer versions of equipment, and rivals will face the same challenges. Virtual reality devices such as Oculus are bound to be rolled out and accepted by the C-end market, but not 2015 years.

5, there is another reality may not be as good as the imagination of the market is wearable equipment market--apple watch is unlikely to be as popular as the ipod, iphone and ipad, because wearing a micro-computer on one's wrist is not attractive enough for many people. In the end, the market for wearable devices can be widely accepted only when personal cloud services are good enough and the personal cloud market rises, so it is likely that a lot of time, money and manpower will be spent on trial and error in 2015 years.

In the 6 and 2015, capital markets will be more "secure", because the rising tax rates and falling oil prices will put great pressure on global capital markets, in which case capital will opt for safer delivery, and in the internet age, Google, Apple, Amazon, The shares of big companies like Facebook mean safer investments. So, as the 1th Point says, large and medium-sized companies with a reputation are easy to raise, but not for new start-ups.

7. Democratic and Republican parties will begin to compete in Silicon Valley for the next presidential election, and technology-related issues will slowly become important. Republicans will push their views on immigration and cyber gravity, and the White House will respond. Although both sides will generate their own victories, the ultimate beneficiaries are always the public.

8. The tragic 2014 years will be a wake-up call for bitcoin investors. Developers will shift their energies from digging up the next Bitcoin (or other shanzhai) to building applications using the Bitcoin encryption protocol. When the platform is mature and the enterprise's power is guided in the right direction, the real central application will show its value.

9. More and more enterprises are beginning to benefit from cloud services and mobile office, they change the traditional office and workflow presentation, Enterprise Services and SaaS will become a hot topic in 2015 years.

10. In order to avoid the footsteps of Sony, companies, institutions and government departments will significantly increase the digital security budget in 2015 years. VC will be chasing the "leasing economy" as the capital into the field of digital security, at the same time, hacking will continue, after all, in the public online almost no unbreakable system.

11. When smartphones become our electronic medical records, Peer-to-peer medicine (patient-patient diagnosis) and the carrier of the health care market, a truly patient-centred health care service will put greater pressure on the industry. This big trend will take decades to complete, but we'll see the beginning of the process in 2015.

May everyone have a happy New Year and a wonderful 2015.