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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 8 – Cyber

Steve Blank

led liberal international order and replace it with its own neo-totalitarian model where China emerges as the dominant regional and global power. The third class focused on Russia, which since 2014 has asserted itself as a competing great power. IP & Protected Personal Information Theft. Why or why not? interests and why?

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

If you want to feel bullish on how Lightning can be used as global payments rails, read this comprehensive essay by Nicolas Burtey of Galoy. TL;DR: The best analogue for Bitcoin itself is a global settlement layer like Fedwire (run by the Federal Reserve for interbank settlements with an average transaction size of $2 million).

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Q2 2015 DDoS Trends – The Fall Of Search Engine Impersonators

YoungUpstarts

According to Incapsula “threat landscape report” , search bot impersonation was detected in 60% of the DDoS attacks in 2014 but only in 1% of those in 2015! Google and Baidu impersonators bots – 2015 compared to 2014. Source: Q2 2015: Incapsula global DDoS threat landscape – Full report ).

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2015 Q2 DDoS Threat Landscape Report: The Downside Of The Decline Of Search Engine Impersonator Bots, And What It Means For DDoS Attacks

YoungUpstarts

On the surface, the news that the use of search engine impersonator bots is down from 57% of all DDoS bot traffic in 2014 to a miniscule 0.9% Then a great thing happened: people caught on, internet security caught up, and IP-based mitigation techniques that can identify and bounce these bots was widely adopted.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

So assume that in 2012 the company would do $20 million in sales and $2 million in profits (10%) and 2013 they would do sales of $25 million and $4 million in profit (16% net margin) and then slow growth in 2014 to $30 million and $6 million in profit (20% profit). You own the IP you create. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. It’s up from 40 minutes in July 2014. Even by July 2014, Facebook’s core application had effectively saturated the US market, with more than 80% of US adults on Facebook. Global smartphone revenue is about $420B.

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SXSW Startups: X-Biomedical

Austin Startup

Their technologies shrink down prohibitively expensive, enormous, room-sized status quo visualization equipment into a single briefcase, providing tenfold more value, and costing 10 times less. In addition to our expanding IP portfolio our competitive advantage includes our empathetically designed, super ergonomic technology.

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