Feld Thoughts
JUNE 22, 2012
By day he works on web and social media for HP. Using just two data points, the modem I had in 1986 and the modem I had in 1998, the spreadsheet predicts that I’d have a 25 megabit/second connection in 2012. In the bandwidth example, picking a point in 1986 and a point in 1998 exactly predicts the bandwidth I have in 2012.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 19, 2014
Some concerns in the media include: Legislation. Photovoltaic cost per watt continues to drop (from $12 per watt in 1998 to $5 per watt in 2013, 14% annually over the long term) at the same time that we’re seeing new innovations in grid-scale energy storage. If costs come down, are there other barriers?
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 10, 2013
They entered, but didn’t win, the MIT $50K competition in 1998. He was built like a tank and was a member of Israel’s Sayeret Matkal. He longed to be at MIT. Akamai’s original name was Cachet Technologies. As a judge for the MIT $50k until 1996, there were always a lot of VCs hanging around.
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