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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Given these key advantages, I believe that Lightning (or something like it) will ultimately eat all of the USD payment networks and create the foundation for MoIP (Money over IP). . Use Case II: Decentralized Data Network (Web 3) . As Nick Grossman of USV spells out here , the rise of NFTs marks the transition from the Web 2.0

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Cornell Tech Company: Agronomic Technology Corp (Part 1), Guest Post by Deb Eichten

ithacaVC

There are actually four people named on the IP and it was a multi-disciplinary project…This was the first product to come out of our department.”. By April 2014, supported by a small round of funding with farmers as the initial investors ,they took what the original Cornell team had created and rebuilt it into a cloud-based solution.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Agency I started back in 2014 and still run, is named Neparno 10, which on Serbian language means Odd 10. Ran reports through a IP lawyer, they were all taken or didn’t sound good. Peacock didn’t sound as good but Conure another name for parakeet sounded good and passed the IP/trademark test. 4- Considered a few things.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

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. However, it’s premature to suggest that Snapchat will follow a similar usage model.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Anodot (2014) – a real-time analytics and automated anomaly detection system that discovers outliers in vast amounts of data. Fraugster (2014) – Technically based in Berlin, the company uses AI to predict malicious attacks before they happen. Logz.io (2014) – Logz.io Raised $8M in series B in September 2016.

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Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II)

crowdSPRING Blog

I started a couple of weeks ago with the first part of a post on small business trends for 2014; today I have 5 more trends that I’d like to share. Personalized search is one that is customized based on a user’s own web history, physical location, and personal profile. Illustration, Wikipedia: 2014 – Year of the Horse.

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3 Steps Millennials Can Take To Disrupt The Business Waters

YoungUpstarts

After all, 62 percent of Millennials report that they want to become their own bosses, but as of 2014, fewer than 2 percent took the leap. In today’s marketplace, you don’t need a physical address as long as you can be found on the web. Ari Rabban is the CEO of Phone.com and a veteran of the IP communications industry.