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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

Price/bandwidth is plummeting. The public markets are forecasting that. When I started covering space, comm. companies were trading at 50 P/E, then down to 30, now down to 8. Apple 11-12x P/E. Apple, HP, Microsoft, all about the same. When I virtualize, eventually I’m going to buy less. Riverbed is trading at 35 P/E.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

It was difficult because we had limited bandwidth to send the bits through, and limited processing power to compress and decompress the video. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth). Step 2: Forecast the linear trend.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

ISRAEL’S STATISTICS BUREAU FORECASTS 4% GROWTH IN 2010. The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) forecasts 4% growth for 2010 based on data it accumulated over the first nine months of the year. growth forecast for 2010 exports. For previous editions, click here. The growth figure is largely based on a new 9.1%