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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

– there have also been some major breakthroughs on Bitcoin’s native layer 2 scaling solution, the Lightning Network. Lightning is a network of bi-directional payment channels that allows for instant settlement between parties and routing of payments over a TOR-like p2p network settled in units of bitcoin.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. 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. Gene Kim laughed at my prediction.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

By Todd Plitt, USA TODAY Neville Clubwala, a Taskrabbit worker in New York City, delivers cupcakes from Butter Lane bakery and champagne, to a recipient who received a promotion. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. Thats real money."

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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

abovethecrowd.com

An article in the New York Times titled “ Mom’s Van Is Called Uber ” suggests that parents are using Uber to send their kids to different events. Farhad Manjoo wrote a compelling piece for the New York Times (“ With Uber, Less Reason to Own a Car ”) making just this argument. Transporting kids.

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Transcript of Why All Business Owners Should Become Authors

Duct Tape Marketing

I wrote my first, I don’t think I wrote my first book until 2006, so you wrote yours about 10 years before that maybe, on a topic that was just getting started, internet marketing. It’ll stand as a silent sales person for you for a long time until they’re ready to say, “you know, I need a new HVAC system.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. It’s a very tough decision to walk away from a senior role at what I consider one of the most successful tech companies of Internet era. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Internet pioneers. It was 2007.