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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. What once cost $20,000 and was produced by skilled researchers in a lab, now costs $500 and is produced by hobbyists working part-time. Step 2: Forecast the linear trend. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived.

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

At that time, in the year 2000 there were no spam filters so it was pretty easy to contact other translation companies to setup cooperation. We love seeing the impact of energy cost reductions, improved housing, and the fruit developed thru the use of this new technology. I always loved languages. 18- Freedom.

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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

abovethecrowd.com

Consider the following example from 34 years ago that included the exact same type of prediction error: “In 1980, McKinsey & Company was commissioned by AT&T (whose Bell Labs had invented cellular telephony) to forecast cell phone penetration in the U.S. AAA estimates that the average annual cost of owning a car is $9,000.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

44:25) Parallels between the pandemic and previous crises, and Carl's thoughts on some of the new norms that will arise. (45:28) We have to act quickly and decisively to set ourselves up for where we want to be as an organization, but also as a society in that new normal. Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34) Yes, we’d like that.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

I'm from New York, upstate New York. But you go to New York City and people just kind of. Brian Chesky : And also humans are not good at forecasting or creating a mental model around something that's never happened before. That meant of course initially raising money and cutting costs.

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Asset Management Is A Bizarre Industry Ripe For Disruption

David Teten

Each new investor tends to raise valuations and lower returns for all the other competitive investors. It is mathematically impossible for the median investor to beat a low-cost index, after expenses. (Of This option-based valuation methodology can also be used to explain the early 2000 internet/telecom bubble in the public markets.

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

Ben's Blog

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. First, as the below chart shows, IPO pops are not a new phenomenon. 1999-2000 51.6%

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