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Seven considerations to ensure your broadband is up to the task

NZ Entrepreneur

Chances are your internet connection is something you haven’t given much thought since you signed up with your provider. However, taking a moment to think about if you are getting the most out of your internet can be a game changer in terms of your capacity to do business. Hyperfibre offers speeds of 2000 Mbps, 4000 Mbps and 8000 Mbps.

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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. . Instant: all settlement on Lightning happens instantly. Instead, we’ll own our own identity via LSATs. .

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Global Mobile Internet Data Traffic To Explode 13-Fold By 2017: Cisco

YoungUpstarts

Or 134 times all the Internet Protocol traffic (fixed and mobile) generated in the year 2000. Much of the increase in mobile traffic can be attributed to continued strong growth in the number of mobile Internet connections (personal devices and machine-to-machine applications). Or 3 trillion video clips (e.g., Mbps) to 2017 (3.9

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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. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth). Gene Kim laughed at my prediction. But I digress…).

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An Open Letter to Startup Founders Everywhere in a Time of Crisis

David Cohen

In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. Other startups will fail, and you can acquire their talent, their IP, their customer bases for cheap. We raised a lifetime grand total of $100,000 for that business in the form of advance payment from early customers. In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. Sudden change.

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

David Teten

He then led the growth of the domain services division, expanded into the aftermarket business and built Oversee’s owned and operated portfolio of domain names into one of the worlds largest, firmly establishing the company as a leader in Internet real estate. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

Increasingly it became difficult to tell any system integration company apart and there was a whole new breed of competitors in the market helping companies build Internet businesses. Andersen had lost its long-time CEO, George Shaheen, was hemorrhaging staff and wasn’t exactly known as being an Internet pioneer.

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