Gust
JUNE 19, 2012
And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. One of my earliest excursions into market research was working for a research firm doing a 1979 forecast on ATMs. Often this is part of a good forecast.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 22, 2012
Using just two data points, the modem I had in 1986 and the modem I had in 1998, the spreadsheet predicts that I’d have a 25 megabit/second connection in 2012. But it’s hard to say, even with hindsight, that we could have predicted Wikipedia, let alone forecast when it would occur. (If Step 2: Forecast the linear trend.
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YoungUpstarts
MAY 20, 2019
percent in 1998 to 7.7 While these may sound like a reading of the tea leaves, they are based on positive forecasts and recent history. Time was short and the work laborious, meaning that the majority of jobs went to India to save on costs. The proof is in the numbers: IT increased its contribution to India’s GDP from 1.2
VC Cafe
OCTOBER 18, 2011
He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international. Moshe says that the Israeli economy is in good shape and has momentum, yet has a cloudy forecast ahead of it.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002. It was a technical tour de force.
VC Cafe
APRIL 8, 2010
Israel’s central bank, Morgan Stanley and other financial institutions have forecasted 3.5% and was founded in 1998. real GDP growth for Israel in 2010 in the absence of extraordinary developments, and Fischer has said the economy may grow more than that if the global recovery accelerates. Net-Aye is a subsidiary of Bar-Tec Ltd.
Gust
JUNE 19, 2012
And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. One of my earliest excursions into market research was working for a research firm doing a 1979 forecast on ATMs. I have the purchase history to prove it.
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