TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

But Tor does not do packet mixing — and Nym’s contention is that a functional mixnet can provide even stronger network-level privacy. The tech is open source, but Nym confirms the plan is to use some of the Series A funding for an independent audit of new code.

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mix-use networking technology venture capital 133

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs.

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networking mix-use innovation development 318

Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

As such, the history of the MP3 gives an excellent framework to anticipate how disruptive 10x innovations impact a market, and who the winners and losers of such breakthroughs will be. The MP3 is a perfect case study of Innovator’s Dilemma. These were the knob-twiddling soundboard jockeys who actually mixed the albums.

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incumbents disruption frameworks innovation 40

TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Israel’s heady mix of questioning culture, tradition of national military service, higher education, the widespread use of English, appetite for risk and team spirit makes for a fertile place for fast-moving companies to appear. Waze’s 100 employees received about $1.2 billion (£7 billion), came from Jerusalem.

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startup ecosystem startup incubation culture 88