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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

View from Seed

When self-driving cars felt imminent, many pundits started thinking about its consequences on car ownership, housing choices, on-demand economies, etc. This is not dissimilar to the explosion of applications we saw in the mid-2000’s fueled by declining computing costs, cloud infrastructure, and social platforms. have to do with timing.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers.

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Top 20 U.S. Tech Conferences Every Startup And SMB Should Check Out

YoungUpstarts

Join others who code to change the world for the better and explore distributed computing, examine the confluence between businesses and technology, and debate the power of technology on urban development. VentureBeat Mobile Summit. Hopefully we will see you there! FutureStack. Tech-savvy minds, this is the conference for you.

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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

abovethecrowd.com

I find it surprising that a finance professor like Damodaran did not consider the impact of price on demand. The relationship between price and demand is well understood, and while Damodaran may not have the numbers he would need to calculate Uber’s specific price elasticity , let me assure you that it is high. Different Economics.

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E-Commerce Failures and Mistakes: Why do so Many Startups Fail?

ReadWriteStart

Ask yourself these questions: What should I sell to meet the demands of buyers? Does the photo look like something taken on a mobile phone from 2000? It’s advised to test a small amount of inventory for gauging product demand before buying it in bulk amount. How should I add value to my product?

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. DST invested $180mm last fall.

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

ConversionXL

If you’re after mobile traffic (everyone is), site speed becomes even more important. Only 25% of the Alexa 2000 uses a CDN. look at the Distributions tab to see page load speed distributions). Are you thinking about mobile users? In my experience for most sites in the US mobile visitors are around 30%-40%.