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An Overview Of The SIP Trunk Definition And What It Takes To Sell

YoungUpstarts

You know, those internet-based phone systems that everyone is crazy about right now. SIP, which stands for Session Initiation Protocol, and is one of the more common protocols in voice over internet protocol (VoIP) technologies. While many associate SIP with VoIP, there are other methods of deploying VoIP aside from SIP.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

To be clear, Lightning is still in its alpha phase of development and a long way from mainstream adoption. Given these key advantages, I believe that Lightning (or something like it) will ultimately eat all of the USD payment networks and create the foundation for MoIP (Money over IP). .

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“Fantastic” beats “efficient”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Of course this is Survivor Bias at it’s finest; these examples don’t prove this is a great strategy , they just illustrate that it can work: Zappos decided to sell shoes over the Internet, even though it meant eating shipping costs as customers tried shoe after shoe, constantly returning merchandise on the basis of fit or look.

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

The first category includes companies that have a dominant position in their national market and are often internet or ecommerce companies. The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors. in GE, 1.3

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

Today’s post is a guest post from William Hertling, author of the award-winning Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears and A.I. I’m a huge fan of William and his writing as you can see from my review of his book Avogadro Corp. By day he works on web and social media for HP.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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The Creator Economy is rising, but challenges abound

VC Cafe

To make a living (defined as $100K a year), former Wired editor Kevin Kelly suggests, you only need 1,000 true fans that will each buy products from you for $100 a year. According to Li Jin, we’re in the process of the ‘ unbundling of work ‘ in which many are moving from companies to independent sole proprietor businesses.