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Article: 5 VENTURE CAPITALISTS GAZE INTO THEIR CRYSTAL BALLS.(Business)(VENTURE CAPITAL)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 19, 2007
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Byline: JOHN COOK P-I COLUMNIST
GENERAL MOTORS will announce plans for an electric car. Apple's new iPhone will tank. And Zillow.com will attempt an IPO.
Those are among the prophecies for 2007 from Seattle area venture capitalists who participated in my fifth annual "predictions column." Here's a deeper look:
PATRICK ENNIS, ARCH VENTURE PARTNERS, SEATTLE:
If you were given $5 million to build any company in 2007, what would it be, why and what would you name it?
"It sounds mundane, but I'd like to see a spam filter built that has a false-positive rate of 0.01 percent or less. The problem with current technology is not so ...