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Why We Invested in Toya

VC Cafe

As we are spending more of our resources online, we believe that a “new Internet” is being created – with the consumer at its centre – on top of a strong tech infrastructure: 5g/6g, cloud, edge computing, new powerful GPUs, spatial computing, decentralisation etc. . The “new internet” aka “Metaverse” .

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[Infographic] How The Digital World Fuels The Physical Economy

YoungUpstarts

How important is the Internet to the world’s economy? Consider this: the Internet accounts for 3.4% And it’s growing rapidly too – global internet use is increasing, which also leads to increased GDP and thus creating jobs and wealth. Others economy infographic Internet' Plenty, as you can imagine.

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

YoungUpstarts

currently trails China and South Korea in 5G development, a situation which puts America at a disadvantage if it is not addressed. 3G emerged from the growth of the internet during the 1990s , which created a demand for mobile phones that could support both SMS texting and multimedia MMS transmission of image, sound and video files.

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A Tale of Two Bubbles: Why Cryptocurrency Isn’t the Next Dot-Com

ReadWriteStart

Early internet technology was groundbreaking, but decentralized currency is truly revolutionary. Recent fluctuations in the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were the direct result of new regulations announced by the South Korean government , and other regulatory agencies across the world are guaranteed to make similar moves.

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When Small Businesses Meet Big Opportunities

YoungUpstarts

Globally, SMEs that sell overseas generate average revenues of US$1.5 In China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain and Taiwan, exporting SMEs are roughly twice as likely to report such rapid growth compared to their non-exporting counterparts, while exporting SMEs in Brazil, Colombia and India are between 1.1-1.3

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet. There was one in Silicon Valley, unsurprising, one in Chicago, and there was this group out of the south of France that served all of Europe. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet. ” No, no.

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New Web Order - Finding a Technical Co-Founder

nikcub.appspot.com

instead of doing a GroupOn clone in South Korea, how about contacting GroupOn and asking if you can franchise? They do the spec and marketing work and are seeing $80k a month in revenue, so a successfull relationship with contract development work is very possible. What do they do that sucks so much that you can do better?