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Silicon Valley Will Suffer a Shameful Legacy for Introducing Inequality to the Great Equalizer

Austin Startup

Fortunately, Europe and Asia as well as Africa are making great breakthroughs in technology such as mobile payments, blockchain and distributed ledgers and artificial intelligence as well as robotics. India continues to pour out more advanced talent and Latin America continue to emerge more modernized urban destinations.

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

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. Silicon Valley don’t want you guys to see Joe Louis beat James Braddock because they saw how America quickly celebrated The Brown Bomber.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

If your owner is a passionate and positive person who works hard as well, their attributes and qualities will transcend to the rest of his/her employees. Thirdly, to be an entrepreneur at the junction of blockchain and legal tech is to be at the forefront of the global changes that are taking place in our world.

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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

abovethecrowd.com

For the market size, he states, “For my base case valuation, I’m going to assume that the primary market Uber is targeting is the global taxi and car-service market.” He then goes on to calculate a global estimate for the historical taxi and limousine market. The rest of his model is rather straightforward and typical.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Now the 9th largest economy in the world, it‘s clear that the rest of the world is waking up to the potential in Texas. Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? Pepper Snapple, Frito-Lay PepsiCo, Pizza Hut, and Toyota North America.

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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

Massive Scale with Unprecedented Speed BlazingDB offers a massively distributed, “cloud first”, high performance SQL database that achieves performance gains on the largest workloads and datasets at extraordinarily competitive costs. He created the first GPU table joiner and the rest is history. I am a proud investor and advisor.

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A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy

abovethecrowd.com

These reasons are likely behind the struggles in GroupOn’s core Daily Deals business ( North America Third Party Revenue is down in Q4 both YOY and QOQ ). The rest is history. The distribution power of their pervasive platform proved a remarkable vehicle for many companies; particularly games companies.

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