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How to measure the accuracy of forecasts

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

So, was the forecast accurate? Does that mean the forecast was inaccurate? How do you hold forecasters accountable, when the forecast is only a probability? The forecast is what chance this lead has of converting, or what dollar value it has. Similarly, the forecaster will sometimes predict 0% or 10% or 50%.

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6 Trends Startups Must Cope With In 2013 – From Paul Kedrosky

ReadWriteStart

Countries from Chile to Turkey have tried to cook up their own startup ecosystems in the past couple of years. ” As clean-tech startups were revealed to be unsuccessful in 2012, Kedrosky forecasted 2013 will be the year that exposes big data startups. As a result, that will change the dynamics in the market fairly materially.”

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Invest in Israel Newsletter June 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Albaugh, which was founded in 1979, has six plants in the US, Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina, and a joint venture in China, and its South American sales in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile complement Makhteshim’s business in Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador.