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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

A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. 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. Here’s an example using two personal computers, one from 1996 and one from 2011.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 Akamai: The Present.