YoungUpstarts
MAY 20, 2019
percent in 1998 to 7.7 The Y2K and its resulting impact has transformed the nation into the product builders, managers and marketers – and what is to say the same thing cannot happen with SaaS? While these may sound like a reading of the tea leaves, they are based on positive forecasts and recent history. percent in 2017.
Gust
JUNE 19, 2012
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 Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. One of my earliest excursions into market research was working for a research firm doing a 1979 forecast on ATMs. Often this is part of a good forecast.
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Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
I started with some basic theory: that a startup is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty; that traditional management techniques rooted in forecasting and planning would not work well in the face of that uncertainty. There's even a classic Wizard of Oz minimum viable product that dates back to 1998!
Seeing Both Sides
JULY 21, 2014
In 1998, Yom Kippur fell on September 30th. Your forecasting process is much more accurate. The management team and the investors are thus rarely surprised by major fluctuations in your results. Expense management. Predictability and visibility means you can manage your expenses more precisely relative to your revenue.
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 3, 2012
Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 The first one I’ll focus on is Akamai.
David Teten
NOVEMBER 15, 2013
Asset management also shows the traditional earmarks of an industry ripe for disruption — most obviously, unhappy customers and extremely profitable incumbents. Despite this, it’s hard to think of good examples of disruption to asset management in the classic, Clay Christensen sense.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
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 satellite network.
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