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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 plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016. But I digress…). Objection, Your Honor.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

I have to pay a lawyer to review a document without having any idea why Im making that investment. No, I wont "just sign it" without having a lawyer look it over, because its a legally binding document whether a lawyer reads it or not. Its your prerogative to say that, but its a pretty lousy context in which to ask for a favor.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

When Salesforce.com decided to buy my company in December 2006 I dropped everything and focused religiously on closure. If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever. You know that every turn of the legal documents can add weeks. Grind on that.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match. The company has no public URL yet.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

I was at a startup AND I developed an evented I/O server with pluggable protocol handlers AND it was capable of handling the c10k problem AND I did this back in 2006 with C# on.NET 2.0 there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors.

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

My first blog post on the topic of CIA was on 14th Aug 2006! As Edward Snowden and the NSA/CIA/MI6/GCHQ documents releases have shown, there are many kinds of competitive intelligence in the world. Switch your IP to the first opportunity from #1. Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Why, What & How to Choose.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

I'm one of the older users not in age but time on IMVU, May 2006 join date. Users also asked that IMVU identify and aggressively act to eliminate the source of such products up to and including IP bans. Being told to its the Dev's fault for things going wrong with your client is ludicrous.

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