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How To Predict The Future

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By day he works on web and social media for HP. I’m going to start by going back to 1994. I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016. Follow him on twitter at @hertling or visit his blog williamhertling.com.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

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Many of the industry funds were wildly successful (in sectors such as media communications, health care, consumer, etc.), By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.” while none of the non-Silicon Valley regional firms were long-term successful as regional firms. This isn’t correct either.

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The Year of Startups Everywhere

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I’ve asserted for a long time that Silicon Valley is a collection of startup communities, which includes San Francisco, Marin (the first board I was on – in 1994 – was for a company in San Rafael), Oakland, Redwood *, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Menlo Park, and Sunnyvale. Or maybe toss SOMA in. Or, well, does it really matter?