My personal guess is that they start from a few hundred solar masses, but that's a much more speculative business.

布兰德福德说，“我个人猜想他们是从几百个太阳的质量开始的，但是这种想法太投机了。”

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General Motors represented one end of the spectrum - our company was formed from the acquisition of many smaller companies in what was, 95 years ago, a highly speculative business.

通用汽车代表的是其中一个极端：95年前，我们的公司在收购无数小企业的基础上形成，那时，汽车制造还是个高度投机型的产业。

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This introduces the risk that the business requirements would change before the application is put into production and that speculative services would be built and not used.

这就带来了一个风险，即在这个应用软件投入使用之前，业务需求可能已经发生了变化，而那时已建好的服务已经没有什么用处了。

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D. from Stanford University's engineering and economic systems department, is less charitable when it comes to companies with speculative business models, especially those carrying a large debt load.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Combine the aggressive confidence of science and the speculative needs of business, and you get that unique Western omen-reader, the futurist.

FORBES: ARC, the New Digital Magazine for Futurists

The withdrawal of credit in the past two years has been indiscriminate, hitting speculative residential developments and creative business start-ups alike.

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