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Why Bitcoin is Gaining Worldwide Popularity

The Startup Magazine

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer decentralised form of digital currency that uses cryptography to maintain security and anonymity (Nakamoto 2008). Bitcoin has recently exploded in popularity, becoming almost mainstream.

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How to Improve Governance for Your Hospital Board

Board Effect

Hospital governance encompasses many different areas, including audit, education, compliance, regulation, security, and education. Tracking access to facilities and ensuring security. Liam Donaldson was the first one to come up with the idea of clinical governance around 1998. Measuring performance and quality.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

background I wanted to serve our community with I.T. 12- Securing a 4 letter domain. We were able to secure the domain pretty inexpensively. In 1998, The On-Purpose Business Person was released and also become a best-seller. The Ferry godmother has become a sign of hope for the community, the voice of all people.

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Probable and Improbable Lobbying Wins: The 1,000-stockholder Rule

Gust

I will leave it to law professor Eric Goldman to articulate better than I could why “ this law mortally threatens the entire UGC community.” Google, which incorporated in 1998, has a market cap of $200 billion and employs more than 30,000 people. Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion.

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

For example, digital startups are more likely to secure funding if someone on their founding team holds a doctoral degree. But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development. Crowdfunding communities are no different. How can you reveal your reputation?

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A tale of two cities: Bewildered by the city government's continued cluelessness on NYC's innovation scene

This is going to be BIG.

Either way the "one stop shop" model went out with portals in 1998. What's really unfortunate is that, each week, community members run tons of high quality events where entrepreneurs connect and learn. I'd love it if you were promote the existing efforts of the community to build an ecosystem. That's just the way it works.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. Lindzon has more than 20 years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998.