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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Napster arrived in June, 1999. Smaller equals faster in processor technology.).

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. Often this is part of a good forecast.

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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

Ben's Blog

The combination of access to a robust private market coupled with the easing of the on-ramp created by the JOBS Act has enabled companies such as Moderna to be able to invest in life-changing technologies as we’ve seen with the recent COVID vaccines. 1990-1998 13.3% 1999-2000 51.6% 22% 1990-1998 13.3% 1990-1998 10% 6.3%

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. He is a technology all-star, so let’s find out what he is envisioning for the future of technology, business, and Israel. By Ben Bakhshi.

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Who Makes the Money on an Inevitable Shoe Dropping?

Gust

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. I have the purchase history to prove it.

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No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.

Steve Blank

But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002. iridium-9500 satellite phone ~1999.

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The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. Scott Summitt iteratively leveraging the emerging technologies of digital fabrication and 3d-scanning to change people's lives. It's a big tent.

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