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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

Rental subscriptions and late fees were the main drivers of revenue for the organization. Ironically, the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, made an offer to Blockbuster to buy out Netflix for $50 million in 2000. Blinded by its advertising revenue , Yahoo let customer experience take a backseat. What is your next innovation?

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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. Amazon reported already in 2006 that they got 1% revenue increase for every 100ms of improvement.

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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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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere. I think the long-tail (size in terms of market cap, revenue, employees etc – pick one doesn’t matter) is moving towards the city.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

. “Carriers are moving rapidly to IP-based mobile backhaul, and Wintegra’s product offering is uniquely positioned to enable this packet transition and breakthrough the bandwidth bottlenecks faced in mobile networks,&# said Greg Lang, president and chief executive officer of PMC-Sierra. billion, of which $2.5 billion net profit.