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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. But it’s hard to say, even with hindsight, that we could have predicted Wikipedia, let alone forecast when it would occur. (If Step 2: Forecast the linear trend.

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5 Lessons from a Failed Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Taking the time to write down your mission, competitive analysis of the marketplace, marketing plans, budgets, forecast revenue, etc really is worth your while. For example, if you are in the process of having a website built and do not know the difference between HTML and Flash –that’s okay the first time around.

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Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

Up and Running

Twenty-three year-olds in New York City running a small business. Peter: Do flash animations still work? Jonathan: I love flash animations. When I started my first business I knew we were weak in accounting. We weren’t just weak. We were terrible. We thought what’s the worst that could happen?

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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)

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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. Doesn't it feel like in a crisis suddenly the world flashes before your eyes and you see what is truly important? 500,000 to New Orleans. They don't really look at people. They don't really smile.