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December 29, 2004
A Round-up of Predictions for 2005
With the exception of those who listen to late night radio, predictions for 2005 see a good year ahead. Here is a sample:
Red Herring sees a big year for gene therapies and electronic convergence, both of which offer significant opportunities for entrepreneurial business development.
Inc.com sees 2005 as a strong year for mid-level companies.
Fortune Small Business offers an array of hot business opportunities, including designer fruit, DNA markers to prevent counterfeit products, under water hotels, and high-tech drive-throughs for fast food restaurants.
Small Business Trends blog interviewed Watts Wacker, a futurist, to find out his predictions of the major trends for 2005. One includes a 1400 calories burger. Yikes! Just what I need after the Holidays!
The Seattle Times offers predictions of a growth in VoIP (a prediction echoed by VoIP Blog) and a slow down in growth for bio-tech and pharmaceuticals due to the growing regulatory mess.
Clickz (a marketing industry web site) predicts that companies will begin to offer free Wi-Fi hotspots as a means of advertising. Right now you are charged a fee to tap into many hotspots in hotels lobbies and airports. With this new model, hotspots will become an advertising medium (first urinals, now this...).
And finally, I could not resist these predictions from Art Bell's late night listeners:
-Canada will rally to become part of the U.S.
-A major accident at a Cleveland nuclear plant will be caused by vibration cracks.
-Bigfoot will be officially classified, when one is captured and killed.
-Saudi Arabia will fall to Islamic terrorists.
-Russian forces will invade Alaska.
-A disease will cause red armpits over America.
Happy New Year!
Posted December 29, 2004 09:09 AM
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My prediction is that the U.N. goes Bust in '05. . .
Posted by: Spear Shaker at January 3, 2005 02:24 PM
at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. He consults with a variety of businesses on start-up and growth related issues, and with larger corporations on re-establishing entrepreneurial cultures within their organizations. Dr. Cornwall's current research interests include entrepreneurial finance and entrepreneurial ethics. He has authored or co-authored four books.
