Danger Ahead: Challenges Preventing Adoption

Wearables

• Bit of implosion of the industry
• Health gamification

Alexa News

• Makeover for Alexa Skills Store
• Enabling Skills with your voice

Messenger bots: Where we're at now v. the future

• Messinabot just released - it's rudimentary
• Side note: Who is going create the best bots?
• Spring
  https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/why-facebooks-shopping-bot-kinda-sucks?utm_term=.bhN4QMnnmN#.lm7Oy0wwb8
• Sarah Guo: https://news.greylock.com/5-reasons-mobile-apps-may-still-rule-3a0f0469cb3f#.b7h3mkijq
• When and why should you have a bot?
• Don't get too far ahead of yourself

Opportunities ahead

• https://medium.com/startup-grind/marc-andreessen-clayton-christensen-venture-capital-is-abundant-opportunity-is-scarce-1d7d720a5009#.h22zc758u
• Plenty left to be done with emerging technology
• There's money available to do it.
• Greylock is actively looking to invest in the conversational space