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Organization That Failed to Innovate – Avoid Their Fate

ReadWriteStart

Don’t get us wrong, Nokia was one of the first innovators in the cellular world, being the first to create a cellular network. Ironically, the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, made an offer to Blockbuster to buy out Netflix for $50 million in 2000. Application Development Activity. Let’s dive into these stories.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

– there have also been some major breakthroughs on Bitcoin’s native layer 2 scaling solution, the Lightning Network. 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. > 14,000 public nodes . >

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. It was difficult because we had limited bandwidth to send the bits through, and limited processing power to compress and decompress the video. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000.

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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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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

a leading Israeli provider of highly integrated network processors optimized for mobile backhaul, 3G and 4G wireless and wireline broadband networks. Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas.

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6/16: What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

David Teten

Technology is changing the way we do business; crowd sourcing and social networks have become a default security system. He also developed economically and environmentally sustainable housing projects in the UK, Australia, and most recently in upstate NY. 500 twice in the last three years.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness. Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution.

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