Can't make money off apps on social networks

Angel investor Aydin Senkut on where he'd invest and sectors he'd avoidAydin Senkut, an early-Google employee-turned angel investor, is becoming known as one of the more prolific seed-to-early-stage investors in Silicon Valley, having invested in 40 companies since 2006. His portfolio consists of some well-known consumer Internet companies, such as Mint, which was recently sold to Intuit for $170 million, Aardvark, Disqus, Dogster, BrightRoll and Rapleaf.  In this second segment of our two-part interview, Aydin talks about the trends he believes are worth following and the sectors he sees as over-hyped or over-crowded.A few areas he sees as promising are healthcare, online education, and personal genomics. An area he things may be crowded is applications for both iPhones and social networks. "Gaming [apps] on top of social networks have been successful, ... [http://vator.tv/n/bb1 read more]

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