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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

It was difficult because we had limited bandwidth to send the bits through, and limited processing power to compress and decompress the video. 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). Napster just happened to have been first.

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11 Low-Hanging Fruits for Increasing Website Speed (and Conversions)

ConversionXL

Amazon reported already in 2006 that they got 1% revenue increase for every 100ms of improvement. Your audience will thank you with extra dollars. PageSpeed improves web page latency and bandwidth usage by changing the resources on that web page to implement web performance best practices. What will a 1-second delay cost you?

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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. Before I started GigaOm (the company) in June 2006, I had never really worked for a startup.

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Three Amazing Web Data Analyses Techniques For Analysis Ninjas

Occam's Razor

Face Reality By Computing "Convert-able Audience" & "Real Conversion Rates." In it, Thomas postulates that even if you have 1,000,000 Absolute Unique Visitors to the website, that does not mean that your possibly "convert-able" audience is a million. Possible convert-able audience = 74,000.

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Is Emotion Necessary To Make More Sales?

ConversionXL

But it also means that you need to thoroughly understand your audience and their “emotional baseline” in order to develop a strategy that hits all the right emotional notes before reaching the final call to action. Scientific proof on that in a bit). For example, let’s say you run a Tax-Relief service.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

. “Carriers are moving rapidly to IP-based mobile backhaul, and Wintegra’s product offering is uniquely positioned to enable this packet transition and breakthrough the bandwidth bottlenecks faced in mobile networks,&# said Greg Lang, president and chief executive officer of PMC-Sierra. QUALCOMM BUYS MOBILE WEB COMPANY ISKOOT.