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Why Integrating Cryptocurrency Payments Will Put Your Business One Step Ahead Of The Game

Strategy Driven

However, as entrepreneurs, we know that making money on an enterprise scale requires a an adaptive and innovative mode of thinking. You want decentralized finance explained for you? Though Bitcoin is decentralized, Bitcoin transactions are public, traceable, and permanently stored in the Bitcoin network. Find out now.

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The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Harvard Business Review

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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Why Bitcoin Entrepreneurs Are Begging for More Regulation

Harvard Business Review

Over the last three weeks I’ve spoken with entrepreneurs, lawyers, VCs, consultants, and bankers about Bitcoin, and through those conversations a clear theme emerged: lack of regulatory certainty is a major factor holding the Bitcoin ecosystem back. In fact, they’d like more of it. In March of 2013, the department of the U.S.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

Developed alongside business magnate Nandan Nilekani, “ the biggest social project on the planet ” relies on community-operated Common Service Centers (CSCs) and local entrepreneurs to deliver programs and share in the profits. Manage people effectively through decentralized teams across organizations.

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To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM

Harvard Business Review

The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. When Sloan became president of GM in 1923, he put in place planning and strategy, measurements, and most importantly, the principles of decentralization.”

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What’s at Stake in an Economy with Low Oil Prices

Harvard Business Review

Suddenly, overnight, it’s in the hands of a number of entrepreneurs unleashed on the U.S. It’s very competitive, very decentralized. economy, you’re talking about finance, you’re talking about IT — Apple and Facebook and others. America is now the largest energy producer in the world.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. The company had five years of growth experience and nearly 200 employees; most important, it was run by an aggressive local internet entrepreneur, Zhou Hongyi.