Eli Arzhevskiy
2009 Predictions for the Software Market
At the beginning of each year the BINC team gets together and creates a list of predictions for the year to come. It was interesting to see how many of our 2008 predictions actually came true. Here are our predictions for 2009; it will be intriguing to see how many of these actually prove to be true:
Mel Condos
1. Sales people will be in high demand
2. Wii games will proliferate the market
3. Top engineers and PM’s will always be in demand
4. Mobile and remote working apps will grow
5. VOIP will grow
Grant Neckermann
1. Yahoo sells in chunks
2. AOL returns to consumer spotlight
3. Wii gets 1st major competitor
4. Venture Funding Falls 60%
5. No major IPO’s in web
Eli Arzhevskiy
1. THQ will be bought
2. Activision will continue to dominate
3. EA will start to make a come back
4. National Gaming will be a good practice
5. My market will dominate yours… 
Boris Epstein
1. Microsoft will buy Facebook
2. Yahoo will reemerge as market player
3. Enterprise 2.0 and mobile will dominate
4. Facebook will figure out how to make money
Iditta Yuchourellu
1. Web 3.0 will take over web 2.0
2. Many new start ups with launch
3. Many of those will fail after launch
4. Yahoo will do extremely well compared to 2008
Tawny Labrum
1. Social Networks like Twitter will be the #1 source for news
2. Steve Jobs will retire due to sickness
3. Techcrunch will go under
4. Cell phone applications will be the hottest thing in the industry
5. Amazon Kindle will flop
Georgina Paolino
1. Enterprise 2.0 will be bigger than web
2. Apple will come out with a touch screen monitor
3. Yahoo will get bought out
4. Vista will be replaced by Windows 7
5. Google will buy Facebook
Brian Harold
1. Two larger social networks will merge (possibly Twitter/Facebook, etc)
2. Mobile gaming will become a big deal for a much wider audience.
3. A company will find a way to successfully appeal to the population with an Internet/TV combination of some kind.
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AskBINC Happy Hour – Seattle
Football season is only 2 weeks away and in BINC tradition, Grant Neckermann, Eli Arzhevskiy and I will be traveling up to Seattle and hosting a Happy Hour to watch the opening game (Giants vs. Redskins) with all of our friends and colleagues at the Pyramid Alehouse just south of Pioneer Square. Our last event earlier this year was a blast and we expect the same this time around. We will be reserving a nice sized room with 2 plasma’s, some great appetizers and of course plenty of beer/drinks to go around. The game starts at 4pm, so we’ll be there at 3:30 and plan to stay til at least 9. I hope you’ll be able to stop by and say hello. Please let us know if you will be able to make it.
If you haven’t visited our blog in a while, you might take interest in our new launch of BINC TV (http://blog.bincsearch.com/?cat=673), where we sit in roundtable fashion and talk about all sorts of interesting topics all pertaining to the web/software marketplace. We have 2 episodes up so far with the third coming this Friday. We hope you enjoy!!
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