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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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Enhancing Marketing Strategies with AI Assistance

Duct Tape Marketing

Key Takeaway: AI prompts can help marketers generate new concepts, research thoroughly, and develop effective marketing strategies for their clients. And this will give you a real taste of how we view strategy, how we've, how we develop strategy. Big part of what we do is develop what we call core messages. Like this show?

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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. It’s still necessary to imagine the future development (although the trends can help inspire ideas).

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

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? I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing. Are the logistics manageable?

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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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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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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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