article thumbnail

Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs

Up and Running

Much of it is available to search on the Internet. Where to find information on the internet. Look for associations on the Internet: Yahoo.com’s list of trade associations is an amazing list of hundreds of trade and industry associations. The Internet Public Library has a large list of associations on the Web.

article thumbnail

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). Step 2: Forecast the linear trend.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

It’s Back & Better Than Ever! Announcing NextView’s Everyday Economy Virtual Accelerator

View from Seed

Previous cohorts’ examples include Comet Health (virtual physical therapy – next step to Y Combinator) and Benchmark Labs (micro-climate weather forecasting – next step to Techstars). ShelfLife: New York, New York. New & improved: more money, le$$ problem$. Allay Health: Seattle, Washington.

San Diego 156
article thumbnail

21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

After I looked like a slob on the biggest day of my life I scoured the internet to find the solution I was looking for. I was still using a modem to connect to the internet and I can remember that it took me 40 minutes to send out a 2 mb document! Photo Credit: Rob Kessler. – Thanks to Kevin Cody, AgiluxUSA ! #18- 18- Freedom.

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive forecasted the issues you have spoken of without entertaining the thoughts of solutions like you have. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

CTO 168
article thumbnail

How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

abovethecrowd.com

Consider the following example from 34 years ago that included the exact same type of prediction error: “In 1980, McKinsey & Company was commissioned by AT&T (whose Bell Labs had invented cellular telephony) to forecast cell phone penetration in the U.S. Transporting kids.

article thumbnail

It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

Companies that reliably fail to make their forecasted numbers are exceptionally prone to “management retooling.&# Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.