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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. 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). Gene Kim laughed at my prediction.

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Transitioning To a Mobile Centric World

abovethecrowd.com

DirecTV has supported this feature for some time, initially on the Internet via the browser and more recently via their smartphone application. For each and every Internet company out there, mobile is rising as a percentage of all user visits. Likewise Priceline and Expedia rule travel, not some travel company that exited pre-Internet.

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

If you want to learn about how to do simple forecasting and trend analysis, please see the official forecast function in Excel post on the Microsoft website, and this handy tutorial on trend lines and forecasting in excel. For this blog, Benchmarking classifies me into Internet & Telecom vertical.

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How The Blockchain Can Unshackle Us

thebarefootvc

In the 1970’s it was the personal computer; in the mid-1990’s, the commercial Internet. The Internet of Things (IoT) cannot happen without these peer-to-peer connections that can offload transactions from a single central pipe. In the Internet of Things, a refrigerator can be a node. blockchainnode1. blockchainnode-1.

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How The Blockchain Can Unshackle Us

thebarefootvc

In the 1970’s it was the personal computer; in the mid-1990’s, the commercial Internet. The Internet of Things (IoT) cannot happen without these peer-to-peer connections that can offload transactions from a single central pipe. In the Internet of Things, a refrigerator can be a node. You could look at our cell phones as nodes.

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Web Analytics: Frequently Asked Questions And Direct Answers

Occam's Razor

The best option is to hire a statistician with experience in data modeling and forecasting. Brian Krick: Best way to measure and communicate "available demand" from available channels (social, search, display) for forecast modeling. Bowser: Does web analytics help the internet field overall or hurt the user and privacy rights?

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

20:32) On believing in the internet as an immune system, then learning it's not and taking responsibility.(22:55) Doesn't it feel like in a crisis suddenly the world flashes before your eyes and you see what is truly important? No longer even in the era of internet, a product customers actually liked. Eric Ries : Yeah.