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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. But it’s hard to say, even with hindsight, that we could have predicted Wikipedia, let alone forecast when it would occur.

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

We did GroupMe for around three years, turned into a company and ended up selling it to Skype for around eighty million dollars and that was in 2011. I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. What I did is I learned the art of a pro forma and the value of a pro forma which basically is a forecast.