Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles
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Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles

A guide to spotting, avoiding and exploiting investment bubbles in tech

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eBook - ePub

Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles

A guide to spotting, avoiding and exploiting investment bubbles in tech

About this book

New technologies are an investment minefield. Putting money behind them means taking a risk on unproven ventures, often from inexperienced (and potentially unscrupulous) developers. While some will lead the investor to fantastic gains, many others turn out to be mere bubbles – a flimsy veneer of excitement and hype with little profitable at the core.But ignoring these technologies can be even worse, as this can mean failing to capitalise on the next great step in innovation. From cryptocurrencies, blockchain, the metaverse, Web3, and NFTs, to self-driving vehicles, delivery drones, solid state batteries, eVTOLs, and more, technology bubbles have been inflating and popping for many years. Each time a bubble pops, tens if not hundreds of billions of investment dollars disappear with them. Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles arms the reader with the tools required to differentiate between bubbles and genuine, sustainable technological revolutionaries. Under the expert tutelage of Jeffrey Funk, you will learn: • The economics of modern businesses and how they lead to bubbles forming. • How to assess new technologies to sift viable investments from hype-driven bubbles. • That you can be a far better judge of new technologies than so-called "industry experts". • How to identify exciting new opportunities in a world of money-losing startups.And much more.

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Information

Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781804090886
eBook ISBN
9781804090893
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction: Understanding the real signals of future market growth
  4. Part One: Bubbles
  5. Part Two: The Hype and Economics of Startups
  6. Part Three: The Hype and Economics of Technology
  7. Part Four: The Hype and Economics of Science-Based Technologies
  8. Conclusion
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. About the Author
  11. Publishing Details