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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

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. . And >40% of that revenue is coming from in-game purchases. 3) Exchanges + HFTs.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. Customer segmentation is essential , not just to identify where buyers pull back but also to “reveal products primarily purchased by people still willing to pay full price.

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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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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.

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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. In 2009 it boasted revenue of $4.49

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

VC Cafe

This highest quality of the traffic information, never achieved before, together with the perfect applications generate significant revenues for the operator and maintain customers’ loyalty. Craze Productions. For mobile backhauling applications, FibroLAN is now offering the Falcon SE product line. Fibrolan. -

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