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[Interview] Kevin Hobbs Of Vancouver’s Vanbex Group

YoungUpstarts

After Ethereum launched in 2016, that was a key turning point for the market. Kevin Hobbs: Vanbex Group was established in 2013 as a strategic communications organization to better tell the story of the companies in the blockchain industry. FinSMEs: What makes Vanbex Group different from other blockchain investment firms?

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The New Startup: Legal Financing & Lawsuit Loans

YoungUpstarts

Since legal financing grew nearly 400% between 2013 and 2017, this may be the perfect time to consider the potential of starting a legal financing company. According to the New Yorker, the legal financing industry had more than $3 billion in assets in 2016. How Lawsuit Loans Work.

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Data Heist: 5 Most Popular Data Breaches of the Century

The Startup Magazine

In 2016, Yahoo revealed that it had fallen victim to one of the biggest data breaches of the 21 st century (in 2014). Barely 4 months later, Yahoo admitted that there was a previous breach in 2013 that had affected 1 billion accounts, but later revised the figure to 3 billion accounts.

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Bitcoin Developments in Denmark

The Startup Magazine

Denmark’s financial regulator, the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA), issued a statement in December 2013 declaring that Bitcoin businesses in Denmark would be regulated by the FSA. The authority hinted that any Bitcoin company operating in Denmark would need to obtain a license from the FSA to do so.

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Five Career Predictions For 2013

YoungUpstarts

We at the Apollo Research Institute see job growth ahead in 2013 – and in some surprising places. Healthcare, the fastest-growing sector in the nation, offers obvious opportunities, but less intuitive choices such as nonprofits—which will need a projected 80,000 senior managers a year by 2016—also offer attractive prospects.

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

We’ve come a long way from switching this blog to WordPress in 2009, my systematic vetting of the business idea in 2009 (after needing it myself due to the success of this blog crashing my dedicated server every time I got on Hackernews), the “ coming soon ” pre-launch in April 2010, our Series A 3-minute pitch in 2011, our incredible CEO Heather Brunner (..)

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2016 VC Half-Thoughts: The Industry Has Shifted Back to Investing in Technology, Not Business Models

Hunter Walker

When we started Homebrew in 2013 our industry was, in retrospect, probably midway through a cycle where innovations were in business model rather than underlying technology. Observing a handful of companies, such as Uber, Airbnb, Warby Parker, founders were taking those models and trying to apply them to other verticals.