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

Austin Startup

In 1294 Gaykhatu (literally, “Awesome” in Mongolian) was the leader of one Hoard of Mongols ruling over what is now Iran, Iraq and Southwest Asia. Taking his name a little too literally, Awesome decided that he needed fiat currency like that introduced by his distant cousin Kublai in China. Yeah, that ended badly.

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Online Toughies: The Cyber World’s Most Wanted Criminals

YoungUpstarts

Here’s a look at some of the names on every law-enforcement agent’s hit-list of online baddies to look out for. Iran isn’t well-known for its cyber skills, but this individual definitely placed them on the map. Nobody blames you for looking out for a Russian name on this list. Behzad Mesri.

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Opening a Bank Account For Station F Entrepreneurs

Kodorra

For example, if you come from Iran, unfortunately, is not going to be easy at all. Before you do anything as long as your nationality is on this list as I told you à friend of mine is from Iran and couldn’t open an account, I know it sucks. Please take into account that your physical mailbox at your place has your name on it.

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Opening a Personal Bank Account (For Station F Entrepreneurs)

Kodorra

For example, if you come from Iran, unfortunately, is not going to be easy at all. Before you do anything as long as your nationality is on this list as I told you à friend of mine is from Iran and couldn’t open an account, I know it sucks. Please take into account that your physical mailbox at your place has your name on it.

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Why Pseudonymity Is Such an Important Concept

Both Sides of the Table

Fred Wilson wrote a blog post yesterday called “Real Names” in which he talked about a commenter on his blog who preferred not to comment because he didn’t want to use his real name. If you want to have a public debate then at least have the decency to do it using your real name! Social networks are like Iran.

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Service Exports - Driving U.S. Startups and Small Businesses

Growthink Blog

Perhaps my favorite and why the great probability is that all of our children will live in a world far, far richer and more plentiful than ours – namely that best practices worldwide are visible and replicable to and for all. Korea, Iran, et al.), Global Best Practices.

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5 Meetings That Changed The World

YoungUpstarts

Before Ford became one of the most significant names in the automobile industry, he worked for Edison at the Edison Illuminating Company between 1891 and 1898 as an engineer. During WWII, ‘the Big Three’ met in Iran in 1943 at the famous Tehran Conference. Let’s a take a look at a few of them: 1. Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.

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