YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

exabytes per month (or 134 exabytes annually) by 2017, according to he Cisco® Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017. Or 134 times all the Internet Protocol traffic (fixed and mobile) generated in the year 2000. “How much is 134 exabytes, exactly?”, ”, you ask.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Magical, really. TripAdvisor’s History: Two Big Pivots.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

Painting the scenario of how things will evolve, Cort Isernhagen of IDC Insights forecasted at the recent Infocomm Technology Roadmap Symposium 2012 that the ICT landscape over the next 10 years needs to consider four macro trends supported by four key pillars of technology. 1990s to 2000: Infrastructure, Security, Management, etc.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

percent in 2000 to 19.6 Home health care is unique in many ways, but the one thing it has in common with every other new business venture is that a lack of adequate planning and forecasting is a sure way to undercut its potential success. From 2010 through 2015, the industry saw a moderate but steady four percent growth. population.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

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.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 6, 2016

Good VCs need to be good forecasters. Deloitte have just published an interesting synopsis of Tetlock’s Superforecasting which gives us some insights into the types of people we need to recruit and the habits we need to cultivate to be good at the forecasting game. cautious in their forecasts. cautious in their forecasts.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

THIS IS GOING TO BE THE 3D INTERNET” a tech reporter boldly wrote. Not in a 2021 tweet covering Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of the metaverse, but in an early 2000’s magazine article forecasting a rosy future for the virtual world Second Life (SL). What I learned from my own years building a virtual world.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

Investment Bank Morgan Stanley raised its growth forecast for Israel to 4.8% for both 2011 and 2012 from its previous growth forecast of 4.3%, noting that the Israeli economy “remains one of the robust and well managed among both the developed and the emerging market economies.&#. For previous editions, click here.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This option-based valuation methodology can also be used to explain the early 2000 internet/telecom bubble in the public markets. In the long run, most asset classes correlate with the rate of GDP growth, and most forecasters expect the economy to grow at anemic rates for the next decade.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million! How did Akamai do it? . . Founding Akamai.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

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.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money. link] leehower.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. What I did is I learned the art of a pro forma and the value of a pro forma which basically is a forecast. My name is John Bates.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5%

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

20:32) On believing in the internet as an immune system, then learning it's not and taking responsibility.(22:55) Brian Chesky : And also humans are not good at forecasting or creating a mental model around something that's never happened before. And of course, this is 2000. And this was mid '90s internet kind of philosophy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 30, 2013

t’s the dawn of a new day in content marketing and there’s rain in the forecast. But yes, there’s a time and a place for 2000-word, epic blog posts (like this one). Remember, it’s the Internet, so you can go back and change things anytime. We’re about to see a downpour of web copy. Align Pages with Phrases.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot. Though this was 2000 , and all startup & VC blogs we've grown to love didn't exist yet, I did have mentors available. We have the most features.

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