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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

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They are fully fungible for hard currency through Safaricom’s network of retail partners for either the sender or recipient of an M-Pesa mobile payment. If massively succesful, Isis might disintermediate the companies that manufacturer plastic payment cards and perhaps the companies that make mag stripe hardware (e.g.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

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According to Toni Schneider, a Partner at True Ventures, and a Team-Lead at Automattic, boundaryless teams confer a real advantage; “You can hire great people wherever you find them: Once your company is untethered from one physical location, your pool of available job applicants becomes the entire world.