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Startup Lessons: 4 Companies Facing Product Lawsuits

The Startup Magazine

When conducting business, it is crucial to make a profit and keep your operations running smoothly. Here are 4 companies that have faced legal action due to the distribution of a toxic or otherwise dangerous product. Remington was founded in 1816 and operates today as the United States’ oldest gun maker. Remington’s Rifles.

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Ecommerce: How to Survive its Troughs

ReadWriteStart

Brands started working towards creating their online portals to push for sales online while continuing their brick and mortar operations. Dell – the American multinational computer technology firm had broken the barrier of a million-dollar online sales back in 1994. By 2009, the success of this ecommerce model was more evident.

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

Both Sides of the Table

So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”. Distribution. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. Oblong, Minority Report, and the rise of Spatial Operating Systems. Human Computer Interaction. Protocol Digital Life. Adhesive (new – Glue for Adtech). Some Angel groups endorse it.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. What We Discovered About Blockchain The Afro-Tech approached blockchain and distributed ledger as how it will affect African-Americans in everyday living.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma. I last went to Burma in 2007.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma. I last went to Burma in 2007.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma. I last went to Burma in 2007.

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