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4 Essential Hires If You’re Starting a Business in 2020

Up and Running

To appeal to the digital natives born between 1996 and 2012 , it’s important to hire a marketer who understands the trends and values that are influencing this generation’s spending habits. A key piece of that type of decision is understanding your cash flow , and putting together reasonable forecasts.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

Using just two data points, the modem I had in 1986 and the modem I had in 1998, the spreadsheet predicts that I’d have a 25 megabit/second connection in 2012. 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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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. The chart below shows the company’s strong financial performance from 2009 to the present.

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The future of food production – reasons to be hopeful

The Equity Kicker

We have big challenges ahead sustaining the world’s growing population (on an exponential curve and forecast to grow from today’s 7bn to nearly 10bn by 2050) but technologies under development give us a strong chance of solving them. As you can tell, I’m very optimistic about the future.

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