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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. Was it David Cohen’ Idea? It was David’s idea.” “Well I didn’t know David. So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”. Human Computer Interaction.

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

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The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. Regulation will come. It needs to come fast.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

NEA No one owns it Everyone can use it Anyone can improve it Introduces (adds to Levels above) idea of Level 4 Platform In his mind, the key ingredient is that the there needs to be multiple platform service providers. He sees this as similar to what happened with SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc.