ReadWriteStart
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Bandwidth sufficient for efficient communication was unavailable or prohibitively expensive. Today, especially in tech hubs like Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York, or Seattle, none of these facts hold. Global internet bandwidth has exponentially increased while costs have become radically lower.
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally.
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Feld Thoughts
JUNE 22, 2012
It was difficult because we had limited bandwidth to send the bits through, and limited processing power to compress and decompress the video. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. Gene Kim laughed at my prediction. But I digress…).
Austin Startup
MARCH 1, 2017
Present were: Darlene Pope who was instrumental in adding Internet connectivity to thousands of commercial buildings in New York City. Mark Parr who was the technical architect (CTO) on a project to bring Internet to the New York City Subway along with many other wireless smart building and city wide wireless network projects.
Version One Ventures
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Low fee: Lightning supports any size payment all the way down to sub 1 cent micropayments, which will unleash all kinds of new internet native, global commerce and even new payment types like “streaming” – imagine paying by the second for watching a movie or accessing car insurance. .
ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 22, 2019
But if your company is located someplace like Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston, or New York, you’re entering the race with a handicap. It’s hard to recruit against a profitable enterprise with a “wow” campus, unmatched employee benefits, and a reputation that’s leagues beyond your tiny new company.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 25, 2010
It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. In many cases, they did the impossible, building a new product faster, cheaper, and better than anyone could have predicted. Everyone was in the flow; the team was hyper-productive.
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