“Silicon Valley is high school, except it’s only the smart kids, and everyone has a lot of money.” –  Kim Taylor , “Silicon Valley” star. For an industry so reliant on the wholehearted embrace of the future, many technologists and pundits seem so completely resistant to change it’s mind-boggling.

Push notification and the fabric it creates are about what comes next. Not what we know, but what we’re about to know. The next step, the one we’re about to take, the moment when the foot is in the air and hasn’t yet figured out exactly where to land.

Patent blogs were lit up after the Supreme Court’s decision in Prometheus v. Mayo

The right investor, the kind who can help startups get over the inevitable “We’re Fucked It’s Over” (WFIO) moments, can turn a startup into a multi-billion dollar company. The fact is that choosing the right investors, whether it be at the seed level or at a Series B or C stage is a life-changing decision for an entrepreneur and a startup. The wrong investor match could derail a startup.

Editor’s Note: Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital . Follow him on Twitter @ahaislip

Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Scott Raskin , who is the President and CEO of Mindjet . Prior to Mindjet, Raskin was President and COO of Telelogic and VP of Sales and Corporate Development at Nexgenix

Eileen Burbidge ( @eileentso ) is a partner at Passion Capital , a premier early-stage venture capital fund in London. She was formerly the investment director for Ambient Sound Investments and a products director at Skype and Yahoo! after 10 years in Silicon Valley in roles at Sun, Apple, Openwave and PalmSource

You’ve met the Swivl before. Back in November, Satarii debuted the Swivl (formerly known as the Star ), and we went hands-on with the substitute camera-man around Christmas. Good times.

Editor’s Note: Ian Lurie is CEO of Portent Inc , an internet marketing agency that he founded in 1995. He co-published Web Marketing All-In-One for Dummies , where he wrote the sections on SEO, blogging, social media and web analytics.

Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is founder of Commonred and Startup Grind . Follow him on Twitter @derekjandersen . Over the past 12 months, I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing some of the Valley’s best entrepreneurs and investors at  Startup Grind .