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Lightning Talks Exponential Growth: Startup Life on the Internet

Sip+Hatch Lightning Talks May 2015

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Lightning Talks  Exponential Growth: Startup Life on the Internet

Making Everyone a Developer

Bryan Powell

Metabahn 1

The Open Web

Lindsey Frost &

Geoff Millener

Mozilla Foundation 2

CONNECT&WITH&MOZILLA&GIGABIT&AND&HIVE&

Lindsey Frost@lindsey_in_cha

[email protected]

Geoff Millener@gmillener

[email protected]

hivelearningnetworks.org

@MozillaGigabit @Hive_CHA

GIG City Huntsville

Harrison Diamond

City of Huntsville 3

GIGCITYHuntsv i l l e

To Infinity and Beyond

Michael Spiceland

Respoke 4

Example technology available now from iRobot (not currently based on Respoke)

Circret bracelet

(not real now but maybe someday)

Many companies working on augmented reality glasses. (not currently based on Respoke)

www.respoke.io

twitter.com/respoke

Cicret Bracelet

http://cicret.com

www.respoke.io

twitter.com/respoke

Helping YouTube Entrepreneurs

Chris Beaman

Curse 5

Helping

Entrepreneurs

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The Future of Gaming

Michael Comperda

Curse 6

The Evolution of Gaming From Kilobytes to Gigabytes

• 1985: Super Mario Brothers • Expensive Game Cartridges • 47 Kilobytes of Capacity • $10 Cost to Manufacture

47 Kilobytes

The Evolution of Gaming From Kilobytes to Gigabytes

• 2015: Super Mario Brothers U •  Inexpensive Optical Disks • 25 GB of Capacity • Less than $1 Cost to

Manufacture

25 Gigabytes

1x 47 Kilobytes

1985

7x 300 Kilobytes

1989

24x 8 Megabytes

1996

192x 1.5 Gigabytes

2002

5x 8.5 Gigabytes

2006

3x 25 Gigabytes

2012

The Evolution of Bandwidth From Nothing to Everything

• 1985: What’s an Internet?

The Evolution of Bandwidth From Nothing to Everything

• 2015: Broadband • Gigabit Connectivity • Average Speed 35 Mbps • Average Price $65 / month

Convergence The Perfect Storm

Powered by Servers in the Cloud

Delivered by Fiber Networks

Consumed On Any Device

Curse Our Story

•  Curse Voice Communication Platform •  Game Streaming via Virtual Console •  2008: Engineering Moved to

Huntsville •  2013: HQ Established in Huntsville •  40% of Engineering Hires are Local •  Huntsville Lifestyle Differentiator •  Inspiring Entrepreneurship

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Let’s Give Them a Hand!

Bryan Powell

Lindsey Frost

Geoff Millener

Harrison Diamond

Michael Spiceland

Chris Beaman

Michael Comperda