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Why Bitcoin is Gaining Worldwide Popularity

The Startup Magazine

Bitcoin was conceptualised in 1998 by Satoshi Nakamoto (thought to be possibly a pseudonym), however, the first official Bitcoin transaction did not occur until January 12th, 2009 when Florida programmer Laszlo Hanyecz offered 10,000 Bitcoins for two Papa John’s pizzas (Dowling 2013).

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4 Reasons For Creating Your Brand Online On Your Own Land

Brandanew

If an influencer is working with you, you need to be able to use that to propel and amplify you brand presence further and get in-roads into their customers and communities too. Your article may be taken off line, the communities become irrelevant. I bought MichaelHyatt.com in 1998. The Digital Native Effect.

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How to Improve Governance for Your Hospital Board

Board Effect

Liam Donaldson was the first one to come up with the idea of clinical governance around 1998. That’s still a worthy goal for today’s healthcare providers. What Does Good Governance for Hospitals Look Like? Another attempt to clarify clinical governance was “ A First Class Service: Quality in the New NHS.”

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I’ll be honest, when I’m naming a business or a blog (I’m a bit of a serial entrepreneur), I always turn to a process I call ‘drunken brainstorming.’ background I wanted to serve our community with I.T. In 1998, The On-Purpose Business Person was released and also become a best-seller. 17- A blog post comment.

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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. ripped from Big in Japan’s blog post.). visit [link].

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

Follow him on twitter at @hertling or visit his blog williamhertling.com. Using just two data points, the modem I had in 1986 and the modem I had in 1998, the spreadsheet predicts that I’d have a 25 megabit/second connection in 2012. They’ve been called “frighteningly plausible”, “tremendous”, and “thought-provoking”.

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crowdSPRING Community Gives Back – Kids In Danger

crowdSPRING Blog

Give Back is the crowdSPRING community’s way of helping worthy non-profit and charity causes in need. Creatives in the crowdSPRING community have agreed that for these special projects, no monetary awards will be given. We’re thrilled that the crowdSPRING community’s next Give Back project is for Kids In Danger (KID).