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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. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. Who will sell the advertising space in our brains?

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“Fantastic” beats “efficient”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Of course this is Survivor Bias at it’s finest; these examples don’t prove this is a great strategy , they just illustrate that it can work: Zappos decided to sell shoes over the Internet, even though it meant eating shipping costs as customers tried shoe after shoe, constantly returning merchandise on the basis of fit or look.

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Ubiquitous Computing and the Misguided Frenzy About “Mobile”

Agile VC

This question has lingered for Facebook and other consumer internet companies in recent months. The growth of internet connected smartphones and tablets is truly astonishing. ” This is broadly true for commerce based internet companies. That leaves advertising based consumer models. First the enthusiasm.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

We are on the high end of the range, and I think expecting less would be unrealistic unless you are building something really simple (and therefore with limited inherent IP). No salaries, at first, but we did a lot ourselves and then did a lot as trade and/or on an advertising basis. I can’t wait to read the rest of the series!

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , YAHOO BUYS ISRAELI WEB ADVERTISING FIRM DAPPER. Internet giant Yahoo is acquiring Israeli display ad optimization technology developer start-up Dapper for $55 million. US CHIPMAKER PMC SIERRA ACQUIRES ISRAELI WINTEGRA.

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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. Aerotel Medical Systems is a world leading manufacturer of modular, home and mobile telecare and telemedicine solutions designed to transfer essential data over the telephone, mobile phone and the Internet.

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