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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

I’m going to start by going back to 1994. But it’s hard to say, even with hindsight, that we could have predicted Wikipedia, let alone forecast when it would occur. (If It’s a wonderfully compelling idea, but it’s a little like video streaming in 1994: the hardware simply isn’t there yet. Step 2: Forecast the linear trend.

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Head, Heart, and Hands: 3 Essentials for Startup Success

Up and Running

And when Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1994, many people had never even heard of something called the internet. For example, if you’re an aspiring entrepreneur who feels “mathematically challenged” (and many of us do), then you may feel intimidated by financial forecasting and fall into a pattern of prioritizing other tasks.

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Hey White Guys, You’re Invited!

Austin Startup

Even Rubén Blades was there, an expert in the bias-laden trifecta industries of music, cinema and politics (Blades ran for President of Panama in 1994). Where were all the forecasters? There were panels devoted just to these dialogues, but what was missing was not on the schedule or the roster of speaker, but in the audiences.

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Head, heart and hands: Three essentials for startup success

Up and Running

And when Jeff Bezos started Amazon.com in 1994, many people had never even heard of something called the Internet. For example, if you’re an aspiring entrepreneur who feels “mathematically challenged” (and many of us do), then you may feel intimidated by financial forecasting and fall into a pattern of prioritizing other tasks.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter June 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Comsys was founded in 1994 when it initially produced a PC modem and then gradually changed its focus to develop processors for 3G mobile devices, which it sold to its strategic partner, Texas Instruments Inc. Intel Corporation acquired Israeli WiMAX fables semiconductor vendor Comsys Communication and Signal Processing Ltd for $30 million.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

In contemplating various names on a plane ride coming back to Chicago from Boston, we landed in a bad rain storm with the pilot’s forecast of the storm becoming much worst and that we were very lucky to have beat the severe storm. So it was clear that we were focusing on a topic that had mass attention. Thanks to Sam Warren, RankPay !

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