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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. It was difficult because we had limited bandwidth to send the bits through, and limited processing power to compress and decompress the video. Who will sell the advertising space in our brains? Napster just happened to have been first.

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Internet Video is Hot, But Not a Money-Maker Yet

Startup Professionals Musings

They point to YouTube as the big gorilla, but also social networking with video (Bebo), and video job sites (VisualCV). billion for the site in 2006. Their revenue from advertising may approach one billion dollars this year, with most consumed by bandwidth and associated costs, YouTube isn’t even profitable yet.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

called The Rise of a Insta-Company, which theorized that open source, cheap bandwidth and increasingly falling cost of infrastructure would result in companies being built at a dramatically lower cost than ever before. Faster networks meant people would be able to access information anytime, anywhere, on any device. I wanted to write.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

a leading Israeli provider of highly integrated network processors optimized for mobile backhaul, 3G and 4G wireless and wireline broadband networks. In 2006, PMC-Sierra acquired Herzliya-based Passave, a developer of system-on-chip semiconductor solutions for the Fiber To The Home (FTTH) access market, for $300 million.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

i-nigma was successfully deployed by hundreds of enterprises, among them operators, advertisers, integrators and solution providers. 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness. Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms.processors that provide seamless connectivity over diverse wireless networks.

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