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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security. Next door in China, too, we see the government being careful with information sharing online within its own borders and restricting access to much of the Internet. In the meantime, we have what we have today. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

CEO Scott Thompson alluded to their plan a couple weeks ago but the IP lawsuit itself was only official late afternoon yesterday (and now public). ’s claims of IP infringement or offer a litigator’s perspective of Yahoo! Thompson reportedly dealt with this IP lawsuit personally along with Yahoo!’s link] Harry.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth). Gene Kim laughed at my prediction. But I digress…).

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When Does Zynga Become a Value Stock?

Agile VC

IP Litigation – EA is suing Zynga for copyright infringement , and regardless of the merits this is a headache Zynga will have to deal with and pay to defend itself. You can read about all of this stuff in Zynga’s own SEC filings or the popular press. one-time purchase offsetting future leasing expenses).

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NUTANIX POWERING THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING, STORAGE & DATACENTERS

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Pre-Internet: The Birth of Network storage. Ethernet was too slow and too lossy to carry the SCSI (block-based) storage protocol over the wire; SCSI could never afford the latencies and the retries inherent in the TCP/IP/Ethernet stack. The Internet Era. The days of a technology from the pre-Internet era are numbered.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

4G/ LTE (Long Term Evolution) -the fourth generation of networks, enabling faster downloading in 4G phones (100 megabit per second compared to today’s 21 megabit/sec in 3G phones). fring is based on a uniquely thin mobile centric technology that seamlessly merges internet rich communication dynamics within the native mobile environment.

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Startup Resources

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IP Location Tools. Likelihood of Confusion -trademark, copyright and Internet Law. 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.