Feld Thoughts
JUNE 22, 2012
It was difficult because we had limited bandwidth to send the bits through, and limited processing power to compress and decompress the video. 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). Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived.
Version One Ventures
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . Other businesses are pushing mainstream Lightning adoption for shopping. bearer asset identity model.
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ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
Yet in expansionary periods, successful leaders spent significantly less on [selling, general, and administrative costs] than did their former peers. A focus on cost cutting—every decision is viewed through a loss-minimization lens. As the authors found, “Firms that cut costs faster and deeper than rivals don’t necessarily flourish.
ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 20, 2022
While employees are often inspired by success stories and case studies of triumphant innovation tales of large companies, the cost of not innovating is often overlooked. Ironically, the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, made an offer to Blockbuster to buy out Netflix for $50 million in 2000. What is your next innovation?
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 9, 2017
Books don’t cost very much money. 20 years ago, the only content you could get online was text content just because of bandwidth limitations. And at some point, people figured out that, “Hey, I can take written content that I publish in the real world, and put it online, and it eliminates all my cost and fulfillment.
ConversionXL
OCTOBER 6, 2016
All told, that’s 2 x 50 x 20 = 2000 segments. x 2000 = 100 statistically significant results purely by chance. But, like I stated, you don’t want to stretch the time that the test is running (because: more pollution and it’s also eating experimentation bandwidth). Because it should all be with 1 variation :-)”.
Ben's Blog
MARCH 24, 2011
In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP. Much better.
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