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Governance

thebarefootvc

As the price of bitcoin rose to over $11,000 this morning (from lows near $6000 two weeks ago), governance was a key theme over the past week. The Ethereum community is grappling with its own governance roadmap, with an active debate currently underway on how to resolve issues of lost funds due to hacks or vulnerabilities in smart contracts.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I was fortunate enough recently to be invited to a private sitting with the president of South Korea, Park Geun-hye, along with 18 other entrepreneurs. She is trying to build a “creative economy” in South Korea and wanted to learn from some Americans what made us so innovative and what they could learn from us.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." Had we been able to apply this strategy simultaneously nationwide, the U.S.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I grew up in Nigeria, and have seen up close the health and safety concerns posed by communities lacking clean toilets and running water. I graduated college during the 2008 financial crisis and took a career ‘gap year’ to head to South Korea and teach English. 20- Add value to the global human community.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

Our population churns out 181 patents per million inhabitants ranking us #8 in the world – ahead of the US, South Korea and Norway. In my view, we can do a better job of forming strong tech communities. The Next Web and the Next Women) and several government backed initiatives. But this shouldn’t take a whole generation.

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And Then They Came for Me …

Both Sides of the Table

We are the global cabal who control finance, media and governments in the eyes of the conspiracy theorists. The fact that he called on nations like South Korea or Saudi Arabia to have their own nuclear weapons? But what about Trump’s policies, Peter, do you find attractive?

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When Small Businesses Meet Big Opportunities

YoungUpstarts

It can, however, be easy to overlook the importance of small businesses like the Chatuchak stallholders, not just to their surrounding communities but also to the wider national economy. Serving the community by looking beyond it. Serving the community by looking beyond it. times more likely to achieve rapid growth.