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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . Instant: all settlement on Lightning happens instantly.

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Registering A Domain Name For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Your domain name is different from its IP address. Most users find it easier to remember a site name instead of its IP address (a string of numbers, such as 109.87.6.543). The registrar places your domain with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Register a Domain.

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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. The “value” case goes like this: A) Valuation Net of Cash – Zynga’s market cap sits at around $2.2-2.3B as of this post. market cap minus $1.6B

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

If youre in a market like pharmaceuticals, where all user testing can be done in a lab, execution in a bubble makes sense, but if your startup is a web product it sounds like hubris. flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. It was yet another Web 2.0

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Ask your existing users this question via a survey. Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed. Once you’ve done that – then. do something else.

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Should You Get Rid of Your Website’s Lead Forms?

ConversionXL

billion monthly active users ) for communicating with friends and family, and messaging-based workspaces like Slack ( 4 million daily users/1.25 million paying users ) for communicating with coworkers. According to Mary Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends Report , 6 of the world’s top 10 most used apps are messaging apps.

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Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II)

crowdSPRING Blog

Two things to note: first, crystal balls like this one populate the Internet and mine is no better or worse than the many others out there. In the several years since the launch of sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo , filmmakers, artists and charities have used the Internet to gather support for their undertakings with huge success.