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Victor Restis – How COVID-19 Has Affected the Global Shipping Industry

The Startup Magazine

What we’ve experienced while dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic has me thinking about the worldwide supply chain network and our absolute ignorance in not addressing the detrimental, looming effects of global climate change. The article touches on our dependency of other nations and exposes the fragility of the global supply chain network.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

Most of the informed people I know are telling me that the sharp sell-off has more to do with European national debt (PIGS as it is called: Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain) than the current US dilemma of a S&P downgrade of the US government debt. I’m long on payment technologies. Yes, it seems to largely be thugs.

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

Both Sides of the Table

Network Up. Example: More than 50% of all youth in Greece & Spain (34% in Italy) are unemployed and if you take “under-employment” it is even worse. I believe the natural success to that is Twitter more than any other technology of our generation. Prices down. But what else? It is open and empowering.

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People are the whole game - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

  Today, we have an angel investor network, the Golden Angels, as well as an entrepreneurship center to spread the entrepreneurial word across campus. In Greece, 10% of the populace works for the government at higher than average wages. In Greece, 10% of the populace works for the government at higher than average wages.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

It’s not for a lack of technological effort from both startups and huge companies in all of mobile payments’ incarnations – SMS, mobile web, native apps, NFC, etc. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. Government fiat.

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