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Three Megatrends That Will Affect Everybody’s Business

YoungUpstarts

For many mature economies like Japan and the US, the workforce will be older, healthcare costs will be higher, and it looks like we will see diminishing pension benefits. Advances in 3-D printing will change the cost and efficiency of making a lot of products and even body parts or organs! Only time will tell. Professor Dominique V.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

In both Rwanda and Tanzania ministers for technology spoke about how they see technology as the future for their the economic wealth of their country. We were surprised at how many female entrepreneurs pitched in the competition, particularly in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania. Governments supportive of technology.

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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

The benefit of the hammer and the dance is lower, and also the cost is higher." His name is Tomas Pueyo. It's focused on how to learn as fast as possible with as little cost as possible. And I think the key additional factor that I added to the conversation is, like nearly all decisions in life, this is a cost-benefit analysis.