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Blockchain is more than memes, wild price fluctuations and my old pal Elon’s tweets

Austin Startup

providing the ability to show without a doubt that data sent from point A was the same data that was received at point B, with all the requisite metadata wrapped around that transaction to prove it. One key here is to write this metadata directly to the blockchain, removing as many intermediary systems as possible. Finance chain.

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Dis-Cord: Mobile Transactions and the Death of Cash

Austin Startup

This could be a number of things: graphically representing transactions, gathering data about your customers, branding transactions, or by providing a better system for personal finance by allowing users to electronically tracking each transaction in with e-receipts waiting for them in their inbox.

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How to Think Like a Hacker, Even if You Can’t Code

David Teten

An example of documentation is the use of metadata, defined by Frank Dilorio’s guide as “data about data and the processes that support the creation of data and related output.” Dilorio notes that designing metadata is “part fine art” and “part black art,” meaning that programmers need both an aesthetic sense and programmer intuition.

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Is Emotion Necessary To Make More Sales?

ConversionXL

These “micro-emotions” as Malcolm Gladwell calls them , are the metadata of human interaction. It includes the services, warranties, packaging, advertising, financing, pleasantries, images, and other features that accompany the product. It never has been.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Rovi : Need Metadata for music/movie/actors, etc.? easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Y Combinator : They provide a series of AA equity financing documents that are written with simpler words so start-up companies will have an easier starting point. Startup Threads.