Five Market Overview versions later -- let's recap. Launching a business venture takes excessive confidence -- or an extreme lack of common sense. Four years ago, after 7 months of random ranting in a blog, an awkwardly-titled Aging in Place Technology Watch analyst business was launched at the 2009 What’s Next Boomer Business Summit. Both of those were in conjunction with posting and promoting an initial report -- Technology for Aging in Place Market Overview (2009). Now more than four years later, an updated version has been posted on this site. The press release (Titled "The Longevity Economy Goes Mobile") will be distributed tomorrow -- and so there's time for a bit of reflection. Since 2009, how much has changed: the environment in which technologies are discovered and utilized is radically different; entrenched social media tools like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn make it different; the rise and fall and rise of crowd-funding make starting up different; boatloads of blog sites offering a cacaphony of tidbits also makes learning about new technology difficult and different.
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