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30 Entrepreneurs Share Their Thoughts on Industries That Need Technology Innovation The Most

Hearpreneur

Technology can help address these challenges by enabling precision agriculture that will use data and analytics to optimize farming practices and increase yields at the lowest possible environmental cost. Technology can help the health sector balance rising costs and increase service. Thanks to Erin Murphy, Best in Ireland ! #13-

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. That said, nothing is cost-free. More complex cost of capital calculation. Inversely, if the company has slower than predicted growth, the effective cost of capital is automatically lowered. Early liquidity.

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Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs

The Next Web

Today, with the decentralising nature of the Internet, distributed cloud technology and a growing sentiment toward entrepreneurship, the global startup ecosystem has never been so dispersed. With its high per-capita income, favourable tax system, sophisticated infrastructure and low business set-up costs the possibilities are prime in Cyprus.

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A Conversation with 2020 Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang

View from Seed

Any of those changes would require a wholesale revolution in the way we distribute and measure value and work. Google’s move is to say it all went through Ireland. In the public sphere, we take the opposite point of view where we regard people as costs. Nothing to see here”. No tax was necessary. And he’s right.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

The entire test was able to complete within two hours with a total cost of a few hundred dollars, and these EC2 instances were only in existence for the duration of the test. There was no setup time, no discussions with IT operations about datacenter space and no more cost once the test was over. xl instances cost $0.68

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Branching out: Why you shouldn’t limit your startup to just one location

The Next Web

While I can’t say this is totally representative of technology startups in general, I do think geographically distributed footprints are rapidly becoming the norm. The team opened up a second office for US sales and support in Plano, TX, while the engineering team and CEO stayed in Ireland. Take FieldAware , for example.

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Registering A UK Limited Company As A Non-UK Resident

YoungUpstarts

This is usually a simple decision based upon the planned distribution of trading profits. Profit distribution is based on the shares held by each shareholder. Companies House is responsible for approving incorporations in all UK jurisdictions, of which there are three: England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

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