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50 Great Ways To Use QR Codes In The College Classroom

YoungUpstarts

QR codes were first created by Toyota to track vehicles in manufacturing, offering a small barcode that can be quickly decoded. That was 1994, and now, almost 20 years later, QR code technology is experiencing a revival — but not in the automotive industry. With QR codes, you can make it even easier to get in touch.

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Pandemic Technology Transformations for Start-up Businesses

The Startup Magazine

Both small and large corporations felt the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic due to the lack of face-to-face contact. QR Codes – the Hospitality Industry and More. Another innovation that SMEs are taking advantage of is QR Coding. A QR code is similar to a Bar Code but holds immensely more information.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

As dollars flowed into the industry, cooperation was replaced by competition, to the detriment of deal flow, due diligence, ability to add value and, of course, returns. Many of the industry funds were wildly successful (in sectors such as media communications, health care, consumer, etc.), This isn’t true.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

It is truly a wonder when you start thinking about the massive scale that Amazon works at and how far the company has come along since 1994. They have completely changed the social network space, managing to innovate new ways to monetize creativity while competing against popular social media platforms. 7- Netflix. 17- Improbable.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

By day he works on web and social media for HP. I’m a huge fan of William and his writing as you can see from my review of his book Avogadro Corp. I’m going to start by going back to 1994. This is what I mean by “forget about trying to predict advancements in software and just look at the hardware trend”.

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

Austin Startup

I mean, our people invented so much and accomplished so much throughout American history from post-slavery to modern times but somehow, we black people cannot write lines of code, really? Stuff CNBC and other media outlets don’t want to acknowledge.

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10 Startup Red Flags

adamac.blogspot.com

I actually once had a very non-technical recruiter try to give me a technical interview (including coding) over the phone. In my first review, I was asked to 'start my own firm' if i had opinions and ideas. 'when Thats a REALLY bad sign. Get this, a non-technical person related to the ceo bosses around the technical staff.