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

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Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. actually did the fundamental research in the 90’s at the Medialab. Or, as always, summary notes available below. Is that when it became big?

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

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In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Because this is a single sitting, top-of-mind post it shouldn’t be thought of like a research paper, it may be incomplete and I’m not trying to be the final authority on the topic. Will try to tomorrow.

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