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Champing At The Bit: Can You Pay Your Workers In Bitcoin?

YoungUpstarts

You can purchase bitcoins electronically and then use them to make payments and purchase products or services from companies accepting the currency, and the number of these companies continues to increase steadily. First and foremost, federal and state law may not allow employers to use bitcoin to pay employees’ salaries.

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6 great athlete-entrepreneurs and what they accomplished

crowdSPRING Blog

His lifetime player salary was nearly $100 million, but it is as an entrepreneur that he has made the greatest impact. As a brand unto himself, he not only acted as a spokesman, endorsing numerous other brands, but is also the owner of the NBA Charlotte Bobcats, which he bought for around $175 million in 2010. Venus Williams.

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America’s founding entrepreneurs: revolution at work

crowdSPRING Blog

His lifetime player salary was nearly $100 million, but it is as an entrepreneur that he has made the greatest impact. As a brand unto himself, he not only acted as a spokesman, endorsing numerous other brands, but is also the owner of the NBA Charlotte Bobcats, which he bought for around $175 million in 2010. Venus Williams.

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

3) I needed the product. I started my business because I personally needed the product we built. I figured I was not alone in wanting this product, so I asked around and it turns out that lots of other women wanted it too. and I found that friends and family would experience the product and ask how they could get one.