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Entrepreneurs, Be Careful to Avoid Penny Stock Scams

The Startup Magazine

Mr. Walsh falsely claimed that Bre-X found a gold mine in Burma. Investors typically purchase these stocks because they the demand for these stocks are huge. The thought of investing in oil, gold and diamonds can be tempting. In the mid-1190s, the founder of Bre-X was David Walsh.

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

I won’t bore you with the rest now, but there are fun stories of launching an online startup in NYC in 1997, learning to code (which indulged both my creative and analytical sides), parties (OK, one party) with Mick Jagger in London in 1995, a summer without plumbing traveling around Tanzania training women entrepreneurs (the opposite of said (..)