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“Fantastic” beats “efficient”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Since I defined the Something Awesome as being holy-crap-you-have-to-be-kidding-me good, word-of-mouth “advertising&# is automatic. If word-of-mouth can replace 90% of your advertising/marketing budget, maybe you can use that money to address the challenges of extra expenses.

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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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How To Use Immersion To Create Amazing Experiences

Duct Tape Marketing

A four-time tech entrepreneur, his most recent company Immersion Neuroscience is a software platform that allows anyone to measure what the brain loves in real-time to improve outcomes in entertainment, education and training, advertising, and live events. You name it. So Dr. Zach, welcome to the show. Hi John, I'm Paul.

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Ubiquitous Computing and the Misguided Frenzy About “Mobile”

Agile VC

Also divide the world among business vs consumer usage, and then subdivide consumer into the three business models of the internet… commerce, premium services, and advertising. That leaves advertising based consumer models. productivity – Evernote). But why is it harder? And will these challenges be persistent or temporal?

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Problems (For the Most Part) Resolved with wordpress and dreamhost

Software By Rob

They advertise ridiculous bandwidth/disk space for the price and the way they provide it is by recycling or killing apps during peak hours. For more on my story and the purpose of all this, visit the about page. 4 comments ↓ #1 Karthk Hariharan on 12.03.08 at 6:41 pm Dreamhost is notorious for doing this.

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Glory Days for US Technology

Seeing Both Sides

Think of the bandwidth IP video is going to require over the next 5 years. The youngest company in this cohort, they continue to suck billions of advertising dollars away from media and traditional advertising companies into their online money-making machine. iPad, iPhone, iTouch, iAd, 'nuff said.

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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!