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Why Bitcoin is Gaining Worldwide Popularity

The Startup Magazine

However, that has rapidly changed over the years due to several factors. Bitcoin has become very popular in the last year due to recent successes like the Bitcoin Foundation’s regulatory efforts and Bitcoin’s use by major companies like OkCupid and Overstock. Bitcoin Up is also helping many investors in bitcoin trading. .

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The True Costs Of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

This presents a chicken-and-egg question: are people with mental health issues more likely to become entrepreneurs, or are entrepreneurs more likely to develop issues due to their lifestyles? Don’t expect pinpoint software to solve your problems. Build community into your lifestyle as deliberately as you mold your business.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

I’m a huge fan of William and his writing as you can see from my review of his book Avogadro Corp. There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. By day he works on web and social media for HP. Take a look – and take your time.

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Dallas Startup Happy Hour Tomorrow

The Startup Lawyer

Blake is the founder of CoHabitat, a startup community and hacker co-working space that’s become a hub for startup entrepreneurs, developers, and creatives. She co-founded an aircraft scheduling software company in 1998 that ended in a profitable exit. Here are bios for the speaking lineup: Blake Burris, Cohabitat.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

At first we considered hundreds of potential names, created software to look for URLs, asked friends, made Facebook posts, held meetings and drank a lot. I created blueberrycloud in August of 2015 shortly after I left my position at a local software company. background I wanted to serve our community with I.T. and the “cloud”.

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Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

The Business of Software. Software Development. After that, Ill finish the article by saying a few things about the specific challenges of hiring software developers. For small independent software vendors (ISVs), my rule is: Dont fill a position until after the need for that position is painfully clear. About Eric.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.