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The Future of Transportation

Feld Thoughts

Two factors: cost and range (and charging infrastructure, to a lesser extent, but that will be remedied when there is more demand). The Nissan Leaf battery pack alone costs about $18,000 (though government incentives bring down the overall vehicle cost to the customer).

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes. More Stable Currency for Some Citizens of the World Some people don’t trust their governments with a national currency.

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How The 5G Revolution Emerged And How It Will Give Business A Boost

YoungUpstarts

To appreciate why economic and government leaders place such a high priority on 5G technology, here’s a look back at how 5G emerged from its 3G and 4G predecessors and the economic impact that each generation of wireless advances have had, along with a look forward at the impact 5G will have in the future. 3G: Opening Up the App Market.

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Why The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is SOPA

Steve Blank

1998 – the MPAA got congress to pass the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), making it illegal for you to make a digital copy of a DVD that you actually purchased. In the 1920’s individual states were beginning to censor movies and the federal government was threatening to do so as well. The reality? History and success.

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The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. There's even a classic Wizard of Oz minimum viable product that dates back to 1998! LitMotors approach to using Lean Startup to create a new vehicle category.

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

In fact, at the time (1996-1997) we offered both a downloadable product, that our customers could install on their own servers, and a “hosted-offering”, which came to be known as “On-Demand”, then the “ASP” (Application Service Provider) model, and today we call it “SaaS” (Software as a Service). The product worked.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

Periodic or on-demand reports are one possibility, but we can do much better. In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi. "Spy satellites produced far more raw information than the government's battalion of overworked analysts could handle. We can learn to see.