Dowdney is in a good to position to answer that question; his organisation is 15 years old, practically old hat in this nascent sector.
No longer a nascent sector occupied solely by Quantified Self enthusiasts, Dow Jones estimates the health-sensor market to surpass 400m devices and $4bn by 2014.
Issuing a letter to halt the genetic testing offered by 23andMe, perhaps the most prominent company of its kind, the agency has sent a clear message to the nascent sector: scale back, or be shut down.
Charity and philanthropy, says Shawn Shieh, the American editor of China Development Brief, a Beijing-based publication that covers NGOs, have become buzzwords among the wealthy.The nascent sector has a long way to go.
At a presentation in June at the inaugural Lendit conference for the nascent sector in New York, Lending Club's founder and chief executive, Renaud Laplanche, compared its rapid embrace by customers to the adoption of electricity, color television, stoves and washing machines, saying he plans to "transform the banking system".
Bob Collymore, Safaricom's chief executive, says he understands the need to raise public funding to pay for infrastructure but worries that over-taxation risks "stifling what is still a nascent sector".Indeed, the value of mobile payments, which posted strong monthly rises throughout 2012, fell by almost 1% in January, the month the Kenyan transaction tax was first levied.
During her time as a VC, digital health and telemedicine were the nascent sectors to watch.
Should you invest in nascent sectors like nanotechnology, even though the payoff could be many years away, if it ever comes?
Foreign investors were courted, particularly in the nascent mining sector.
Some want to expand the nascent tourist sector.
Cuba's nascent private sector is also gearing up for an influx.
