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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

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.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

In this post, I’ll provide an overview of these recent developments as well as a sense of the grand vision I see forming for Lightning around payments and Web3 applications. In contrast to DeFi’s “move fast and break things” attitude, Lightning development has been intentionally slower and more methodical. 1) Generalizable Payments .

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Organization That Failed to Innovate – Avoid Their Fate

ReadWriteStart

Ironically, the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, made an offer to Blockbuster to buy out Netflix for $50 million in 2000. In PARC, Jobs developed Mac using available technology and went on to realize the potential of his invention. Application Development Activity. What is your next innovation?

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Transcript of Get Rich Today by Teaching

Duct Tape Marketing

Danny Iny: So in the online world, there’s been this interesting development where … And this kind of tracked with just the evolving richness of content. 20 years ago, the only content you could get online was text content just because of bandwidth limitations. Yeah, exactly. Danny Iny: Exactly. John Jantsch: Yeah.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

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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How Many Variations Can You Have in an A/B/n Test?

ConversionXL

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 :-)”.

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11 Low-Hanging Fruits for Increasing Website Speed (and Conversions)

ConversionXL

Only 25% of the Alexa 2000 uses a CDN. These scoring tools let you look at potential issues and advise on best practices that developers were able to automatically gather, but they will not solve your site’s problems for you. Your front-end developer (CSS guy) should take care of it. Amazon Cloudfront. #3