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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

You can learn more about the network’s design and technical specs here. 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. . Improving UI/UX .

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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. I chose to use computers I owned that were designed for compactness for their time. Napster arrived in June, 1999.

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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. Earlier in his tenure at IV, Mr. Barhydt successfully designed and implemented the targeted patent acquisition program and developed processes and metrics to improve licensing operations. In addition Geleerd was recognized by Crain’s Business Chicago 40 Under 40.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

If you can, design for circumstances where, once youre ready to start talking about your idea, youre encouraging people to "disclose" your efforts. However, there is the concept of "mutual" NDA, which should give your IP equal protection if you share any of yours. I guess the design will go to my grave with me. or Portland.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

#6- To portray importance of the artistic side of interior design when working on a project. I came up with the name Artful Conceptions because I wanted to portray how important the artistic side of interior design is when working on a project. – If it could be related to our niche (web design and digital marketing).

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

They can call a meeting with all the stakeholders in the room and then just let them fight it out – this is design by committee and it rarely yields anything beyond mediocrity. The year was 2000, and the hardest part about the AdWords project was simply getting agreement that they could work on it.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. I’m studying design. Will developers and designers provide services for a piece of the company? To what extent could I trust web design companies? Product, product, product! Use Joomla.