thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. Use a mobile phone to transfer money? I last went to Burma in 2007.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. Use a mobile phone to transfer money? I last went to Burma in 2007.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. Use a mobile phone to transfer money? I last went to Burma in 2007.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The combination of mobile technology, sensors, robotics, and data analytics will create businesses that can empower billions of people around the world through decentralized and distributed networks where the “middlemen” are no longer required. Even in the United States, one in five households are underbanked.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

Almost 30 years ago, my father decided to uproot the entire family from Taiwan to the United States so that his academically “inconsistent” son could have an education tolerant and perhaps even encouraging of his idiosyncrasies. LA is the home of Snapchat, Tinder, and Whisper – social mobile apps swinging for the fences.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Yes, there are Lean Startups even in the United States federal government. Entrepreneurs used these data to create weather newscasts, websites, mobile applications, insurance, and much more. and securely share their medical histories with caregivers, import their prescription histories into mobile reminder apps, and more.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 13, 2016

The “blockchain” is a distributed consensus system that allows transactions, or other data, to be securely stored and verified without any centralized authority. The transactions are stored on a global ledger (which is why the concept is often referred to as a distributed ledger). Why Is This Technology So Important?

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Popular categories include web developers, mobile developers, designers, writers, and accountants. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 13, 2016

The “blockchain” is a distributed consensus system that allows transactions, or other data, to be securely stored and verified without any centralized authority. The transactions are stored on a global ledger (which is why the concept is often referred to as a distributed ledger). Why Is This Technology So Important?

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence United States Technical Review Global 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

If a company wanted to distribute software on a mobile device it need to sell via a “portal” (US term) or a “deck” (UK term) of a mobile carrier. You could sign exclusivity for coffee companies in the United States and still give yourself the ability to sell internationally if you choose to.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Currencies only began in earnest about 2,500 years ago and ever since have been a great enabler of democracy and social mobility, not the other way around. For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2018

Instead, their blockchain harnesses the power of smart contracts to distribute your digital holdings to your heirs in any manner you see fit. C2Legacy policy holders set a distribution of their digital assets before they pass away, which is saved on the company’s blockchain. How The Platform Works.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Join others who code to change the world for the better and explore distributed computing, examine the confluence between businesses and technology, and debate the power of technology on urban development. VentureBeat Mobile Summit. Hopefully we will see you there! FutureStack. Tech-savvy minds, this is the conference for you.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

The government buys and distributes commercial images from startups to supplement their own and shares them with Ukraine as part of a broader intelligence-sharing arrangement that the head of Defense Intelligence Agency described as “ revolutionary.” DoD’s Civil/Military Orphan-Child – the Defense Innovation Unit. And we’re not.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Gordonsville, Virginia-based PBM manufactures and distributes over-the-counter store-brand infant formula and baby foods sold by retailers in the mass, club, grocery and drug channels in the United States, Canada, Mexico and China. AMDOCS BUYS LEADING UK MOBILE COMPANY MX TELECOM. Net-Aye is a subsidiary of Bar-Tec Ltd.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

Mitu Network is the largest digital media company for Latinos in the US and also targeting Mexico and South America. In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!, The Food Network.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2013

Akamai just released its State Of The Internet report for the first quarter of this year, and Indonesia has gotten itself into the report for mostly the wrong reasons. Internet Speeds and Mobile Connectivity. During the same period, average connection speeds on surveyed mobile network operators ranged from a high of 8.6

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

It’s the second largest search engine in the world, and content from their platform reaches more 18–49 year-olds than any broadcast or cable TV network. The average mobile viewing rates are 40 minutes per session.) But DailyMotion’s geographic distribution of users doesn’t mirror YouTube, especially within the United States.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

2018 set yet another all-time record for the number of paper books sold in the United States, as has been repeatedly true during the era of Amazon. Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. It’s a great business.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Who does X-Biomedical partner with to distribute the surgical visualization technologies to low-income and under-resourced countries? We have a growing partnership with the United State Department of Defense, whose ophthalmic surgeons also run humanitarian, non-combat medical missions to low-income countries.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And even though at least in the United States we never quite made it to the dance, tens of millions of people read them, and it shaped their understanding. So I think the most interesting aspect of this article is how just mind-blowing that distribution is. And so, I first started focusing on the Bay Area.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Because of the magical ordering system and the ability to efficiently organize a distributed set of drivers, Uber can operate effectively in markets where it simply didn’t make sense to have a dense supply of taxis. The number of cars in circulation in the world is just over 1 billion , with 25% of those in the United States.

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ConversionXL

JULY 7, 2020

And yet, Pinterest is the third-most popular social network, with over 322 million monthly active users, nearly 50% of whom are in the United States. Instead, think of Pinterest as a way to build an audience or an additional distribution channel for your content. Pinterest, for most, does not.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) Texas dominates every top ten list.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

I was trading real heavy hours for heavy dollars, and led a very mobile, demanding and by choice, a pressure packed lifestyle. Fast forward a few years, I am now living in the United States of America as a naturalized citizen. I end up referring most of it out to my personal network. I didn’t need any.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

So, a lot of the initial lift was finding all of those people in a city that we weren't from and had some network but more limited network than had it been in the Bay Area. Because if you can do a lot of tests in the lab but you can't actually distribute it, there's not much point. Eric Ries : And under a shelter-in-place order.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2015

These distributed sound systems, Sonos, distributed lighting systems, door locks that you can activate from your phone or mobile. He doesn’t want us connecting every one of our credit cards and bank accounts and whatever for mobile banking and it’s so easy to do. We used to just call it smart stuff.

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