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The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained

Steve Blank

Taken from the bottom up these semiconductor industry segments are: Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. Some companies license their chip designs – as software building blocks, called IP Cores – for wide use. There are over 150 companies that sell chip IP Cores.

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Gaming is Eating the World

VC Cafe

Popular games like the Lineage IP, released by NCSoft in 1998, has generated over $4 Billion in revenue over its lifetime, most of it driven by its mobile version. While the industry is fragmented, few large companies control the top of the charts: Tencent has the top two spots, followed by SuperCell, King and Roblox.

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East meets West: Why Chinese app developers are targeting US smartphone owners

The Next Web

That’s why the free business model is so popular in China. They don’t have a good IP (intellectual property) to defend their technology. Innovation is more of monetization and the business model. Many of those business models in China are quite brilliant and quite innovative.

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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. Businesses large and small are still figuring out how ubiquitous computing will impact their employees, customers, and business partners.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

IP Location Tools. British Library Business & IP Centre : Funded by the London Development Agency, the British Library supports inventors, small businesses and entrepreneurs from that first spark of inspiration to successfully launching and developing a business. business planning. broken vc model.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

Allot is a leading provider of intelligent IP service optimization and revenuegeneration solutions based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology, Allot Service Gateway solutions for mobile broadband are compliant with 3G.4G/LTE Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers.

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