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Finance Fridays

Feld Thoughts

Simon Zhang spent three years as a financial and tax consultant at Deloitte Canada with a focus on businesses in mining, financial services and technology sectors. His focus was to incubate an internal start-up which is built on state-of-the-art technology, novel business model and innovative products.

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Twitter Link Roundup #55 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Technology Redefines Marketing - [link]. “Community creative – how we contribute&# - [link]. Pathetic & embarrassing that the UN can’t stop raping of women in the Congo - [link]. The End of the Social Media Adoption Road - [link]. An excellent reminder that social media can be bad for marketing - [link].

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Entrepreneurial events firm Summit Series acquires Utah’s Powder Mountain ski resort for $40m

The Next Web

In late 2011, Summit rallied the community to raise nearly $1 million to create a marine reserve the size of Manhattan in the island chain that hosted Summit at Sea. They helped the health technology company Basis raise its Series A through the Summit community.

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SXSW Startups: GoTech Puts Out Fires

Austin Startup

Based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as Rwanda, GoTech is resolved to develop, design and implement solutions to help communities respond to fire. The idea is to create a network of devices, so communities can work together to snuff out a threat. What does GoTech hope to achieve in 2018?

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What Asia and Facebook’s Free Internet Project Have in Common?

Transformify

Although Mark Zuckerberg’s plea to the tech community to put those without basic Internet service before their interest in "the intellectual purity of technology" might not be completely altruistic, the positive effects of free Internet are tremendous. Women represent two-thirds of all illiterate adults globally.

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