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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000.

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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

This was not so illogical as most companies didn’t even run TCP/IP—they ran proprietary networking protocols such as AppleTalk, Netbios, and SNA. After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

This code convergence effort was supposed to save Microsoft substantial development time, and also - they tried to convince themselves - improve the offering since Word would have the same features on every platform. But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I work with them to develop and market profitable products and services that turn hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance. I decided to focus on providing complete digital marketing services like web strategy, website development and full suite of digital marketing.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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Episode 106: Implementing Profit First With Frank DeBenedetto and Ralph M. Rivera

Mike Michalowicz

As founder and CTO of several businesses, I love to see ideas become reality and build sustainable businesses that create real value. Presently, I’m focused on two businesses that I am co-founder and CTO of. In 1999 my wife Carol Lynn and I founded Rahvalor Interactive, a creative marketing services company.