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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016. Open source and crowdsourcing principles are well understood: When you get enough talented people working on a problem, especially in an open way, progress comes quickly.

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Introducing FG Press

Feld Thoughts

For example, in 2006, we co-founded Techstars. Shouldn’t the publisher be in the business of helping facilitate these relationships in addition to theoretically curating and producing the content? Ultimately, we realized that the optimal model for what we were doing was Techstars , specifically the Techstars of 2006.

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