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Featured Rascal: Mother Teresa

Chris Brady

        It was a courageous and wild decision, one that would throwher into hunger and doubt.   By the 1960s the Missionaries ofCharity were running hospices, leper homes, and orphanages across India, andsoon thereafter began expanding similar operations around the globe.

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

What traditional investors don’t like about any of this is the regulatory uncertainty; the high valuations and over-capitalization; the lack of control over financials, strategy, and operations; and the lack of business use-cases. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S.

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Crowdfunding’s Big-Bang Moment

Harvard Business Review

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

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How More Regulation for U.S. Tech Could Backfire

Harvard Business Review

They all pay taxes, report their finances, disclose significant shareholders, and comply with the full range of employment, health and safety, advertising, intellectual property, consumer protection and anti-competition laws, to name just a few. By definition, they’ve caused no measurable harm. It isn’t.