1998 Forecast Technology 
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
There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. 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. Napster arrived in June, 1999.
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YoungUpstarts
MAY 20, 2019
Just as Information Technology (IT) services transformed India in the 1990s, Software as a Service (SaaS) will dramatically shift the nation in the 2020s. Information Technology services in the South Asian nation barely existed at the turn of the final decade of the 20th century. percent in 1998 to 7.7 percent in 2017.
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.
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.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
Scott Summitt iteratively leveraging the emerging technologies of digital fabrication and 3d-scanning to change people's lives. We stand on the shoulders of giants: customer development, the theory of disruptive innovation, the technology life-cycle adoption theory, and agile development. It's a big tent.
Seeing Both Sides
JULY 21, 2014
In 1998, Yom Kippur fell on September 30th. Your forecasting process is much more accurate. For most of the Jewish community, the date of the most important holiday of the year was no different than in other years. Here''s why recurring revenue is so magical: Predictability.
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