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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. . Other businesses are pushing mainstream Lightning adoption for shopping.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived. Streaming video had finally made it. Napster arrived in June, 1999.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Can you acquire them at a sustainable cost? Is there a development step that you must take to fulfill demand for a particular use case, and, if so, how does that cost get absorbed? Not that you should make that a habit, but if you do get away with it, make sure you understand how it affects your cost model.

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How To Survive And Profit From Radical Change

Duct Tape Marketing

You know, the cost of labor, but also consumption. That the life of the, in which you can monetize, uh, a new piece of IP shrinking. There are no contracts, no additional cost based in Latin America with incredible English, proficiency and business experience work better. There are no contracts and no additional costs.

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. Founded in 2000, Intellectual Ventures collaborates with leading inventors, partners with pioneering companies and invests both expertise and capital in the process of invention. Cost: $15 Members; $40 Non-members & Guests; please register by 3:00pm on May 24th.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. I started saving and investing young, and have been fortunate with a strategic, low cost approach. an international voice over IP company, was sold to Yahoo! Photo Credit: Ajay Prasad.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

Then there were challenges with fulfillment logistics, difficulty maintaining DVD quality, and trying to figure out how to do all this in a way that covered costs and generated some cash. The year was 2000, and the hardest part about the AdWords project was simply getting agreement that they could work on it. In 1993, Word 6.0

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