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Internet Growth Means Big Changes For How Businesses Connect

YoungUpstarts

By John Curran, President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). When the Internet was first conceived as a better way for computers to communicate with one another, no one could predict the impact it would have on business communications. billion of them.

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When The Mobile Evolution Turns To Revolution

YoungUpstarts

The advent of mobile platforms has rendered all of those tools passé. We are now a mobile society and the proliferation of smartphones and tablets has given rise to a new paradigm in digital marketing: the mobile app. New releases can be distributed and sold directly to the consumer via the mobile app.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

In it he asserts that the web is dying and in its ashes will see the rise of the “App Internet.” And while the App Internet is currently more powerful than the Mobile Internet it has fundamental flaws. It isn’t open in either its standards or in the way that applications are marketed and distributed.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Their idea is that consumers will want a subscription service for short form entertainment (10-minute programs) for mobile rather than full length movies. Will consumers want to watch short-form mobile entertainment? NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Think YouTube meets Netflix).

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

And if you accept that premise then you have to accept that the future of the Internet will be dominated by video. Traditional video had very high costs of distribution due to limited time slots of broadcast TV (we only had enough spectrum to support 3-4 channels). But distribution is now unlimited. Much of it already is.

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The State of Gaming in 2022

VC Cafe

Mobile gaming is by far the most dominant category. At Remagine Ventures we invested in Sneaky Panda , a mobile gaming studio founded by serial gaming entrepreneurs pioneering a new genre – Luck Puzzler. . Mobile games earned $41.2bn globally during H1 2022. While mobile game revenue was down 6.6% There are 3.07

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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

View from Seed

Is there a means of efficient distribution amidst the noise? Will new, native distribution channels emerge? one could argue that the best companies built on mobile, social, and the cloud emerged when the concept of Web2.0 Are these features, products, or actual companies? How defensible are these businesses? was long gone.

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