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What Every Bitcoin Investor Should Learn From a Dictator Named “Awesome”

Austin Startup

Awesome was bankrupt, his markets frozen from the lack of a credible medium of exchange. Bitcoin has value only from the drug dealers, money launderers, illegitimate governments, and black market moguls who see Bitcoin as a valuable exchange to conceal their dirty doings. Yeah, that ended badly. Goodbye limited supply!

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Foursquare? A Bakery?

Growthink Blog

Growing Globally Has Never Been Easier. The teapot dictators in Iran and North Korea may get all the ink, but it is the Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian technocrats with their quiet defense of free markets and trade that make hay. Who Needs the Stock Market? For this is the age of the global entrepreneur.

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Watch Out for Seven Traits Of A Dominant Visionary

YoungUpstarts

Martin Winterkorn, Volkswagen’s CEO, was fired because he created an extreme company culture — described by Der Spiegel as “North Korea without labor camps” — that drove employees to create and install illegal software that cheated on vehicle emissions tests. And there can be a dark side. Uber challenged regulators around the world.

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Top 5 Fastest - Growing Freelance Platforms in 2020

Transformify

continues to cut jobs, it comes as no surprise that the Global Freelance Platforms Market is growing at a fast pace. Apart from the veterans Upwork and Freelancer.com, there are new and emerging players entering the Global Freelance Platforms Market each year. Given that the gig economy is on the rise and Industry 4.0

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Elections in the AI era

Start Up Blog

The potential repercussions on geopolitics and the global economy are staggering. Historically, election interference has been a costly and challenging endeavour, typically orchestrated by rogue states like Russia, China, and North Korea. The Perfect Market Generative AI thrives on the data set it’s trained on.