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5 historic billboard campaigns (or everything old is new again)!

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Burma Shave highway signs (1925). Shoot the brute some… Burma-Shave! Through the power of this advertising tactic, Burma Shave would become the second highest selling brand of shaving cream on the market. Does your husband Misbehave? Grunt and grumble? Rant and rave? One last one, shall we?

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Leapfrogging into the Future

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One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma. He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. We discussed how Burma is now the first “smartphone only” country in the world. And why should these transactions cost the poor more than they cost the wealthy?

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma. He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. We discussed how Burma is now the first “smartphone only” country in the world. And why should these transactions cost the poor more than they cost the wealthy?

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma. He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. We discussed how Burma is now the first “smartphone only” country in the world. And why should these transactions cost the poor more than they cost the wealthy?

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