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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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How To Survive And Profit From Radical Change

Duct Tape Marketing

So we're seeing research and development move faster, right? That the life of the, in which you can monetize, uh, a new piece of IP shrinking. Adding a virtual assistant to your team can help you focus on high value activities like business development to boost your bottom line work better. Those are big buckets.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. 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? As a founder, you need to install a feedback mechanism that keeps development inside the fences.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. It’s why as an investor I look for talented teams with long-term vision, a unique point-of-view, differentiated IP and a desire to build something enduring. Double-down on great people, process & IP.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I work with them to develop and market profitable products and services that turn hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance. I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

This code convergence effort was supposed to save Microsoft substantial development time, and also - they tried to convince themselves - improve the offering since Word would have the same features on every platform. 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

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. The way I do it.