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A Look at the Bitcoin Price History

Strategy Driven

In 2011, Bitcoin was still trading at $17 USD. In 2013, Bitcoin started at $13 USD but closed out the year at $770 USD, which was quite a rise. Even though Bitcoin is considered one of the most volatile crypto coins in the market, most investors continue to buy it. At the time, most people didn’t believe in digital currencies.

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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Your upcoming leaders will need to understand how to do business internationally – international laws and regulations for doing business in various countries, cultural differences, the ability to gauge the market overseas including identifying market for product or services and the competition, developing overseas offices, leading virtually, etc.

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How to Make Fossil Fuel Divestment Really Matter

Harvard Business Review

The $50 billion to be divested is a drop the fossil fuel market’s bucket, but to the much smaller clean tech market it’s a tidal wave. billion in 2011, despite the fact that venture capital funding overall has been increasing. Finance Sustainability' billion, according to Dow Jones.

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How Startups Overcome the Capital Gap

Harvard Business Review

Unless you are willing to bootstrap yourself to some degree of validation of your concept, and can convince investors that there is real demand for what you offer, and a really large market, no one will write a check. Let''s suppose your idea is a good, viable business idea, but not a billion dollar market opportunity.

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Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. Economy Entrepreneurship Finance'

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The Growing Business of Marijuana

Harvard Business Review

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. And more are joining every day.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. In 2011 it was $2 billion , good for third place. He’s not a Steve Cohen , pushing at the edges of legality to get an information edge.

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