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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I’m going to start by going back to 1994.

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[Singapore][Event] ad:tech Singapore 2012 Shows Digital Future For Asia

YoungUpstarts

Leading digital marketers from around the Asia Pacific and beyond gathered yesterday at ad:tech Singapore 2012 to share and discuss the continuing growth of the role of technology and digital media in marketing and advertising. He highlights that: · In 1996, 2/3 of world’s internet population was in the US.

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What if it’s 1996, not 1999?

Seeing Both Sides

In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and more than doubled on the first day of trading, ending with a $1.2 If investors observing this extraordinary phenomenon in 1996 were to have concluded that the technology market was in the midst of an unsustainable bubble, they would not have been wrong.

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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

YoungUpstarts

Regular computers must be united into a sophisticated computing network; big tasks should be broken into smaller ones; and all the possible contingencies — like slow internet or sudden computer shutdowns — must be taken into consideration. (Unless it’s a high-end supercomputer with a computing capacity of 10 000 regular PCs.) Prime time.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

To some extent Keith Rabois agreed with me about domain knowledge and argued that most of his investments are in the consumer Internet space as a result. Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investments will look great. Obviously I agree.

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How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

David Teten

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Mr. Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

To some extent Keith Rabois agreed with me about domain knowledge and argued that most of his investments are in the consumer Internet space as a result. Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investors will look great. That’s what he knows best.