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Blockchain Startup 101: A blue print for launching a successful blockchain-based startup

Tom Spencer

VC funding for blockchain start-ups has consistently grown, with venture investment reaching around $1 billion in 2017 (and likely to be more than double that amount in 2018). They created a product or service which solved a problem that no body cared enough about. Segway is a classic example of such a product.

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Clean Energy Transition: Business Risks and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

While there are many risks and obstacles involved in being an innovation leader – producing products not supported by the current infrastructure, creating more waste than recycling, and the high cost and limited capacity of existing energy storage methods – these problems also represent opportunities for innovation and growth.

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Tariffs Are the Wrong Way to Fight Unfair Trade Practices

Harvard Business

Those subsidies stimulate excess production, depress market prices, and enable SOE-produced products to capture market share beyond accepted norms of competition. of China’s aluminum production, the tariffs will neither reduce China’s global exports of these metals nor constrain its SOEs. Given that only 2% of U.S.

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What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

Harvard Business

Mexico’s fast-approaching July 2018 general election, of which the populist leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is the current frontrunner, is further making the case for incremental investments by multinationals corporations. So, if a company manufactures products in Mexico to export to Canada and the U.S.

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How More Regulation for U.S. Tech Could Backfire

Harvard Business

presidential election to the possibility of a smartphone-driven dystopia , 2018 already looks to be that much worse. Many of the products and services of Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft — the internet giants referred to by the New York Times as “the frightful five” — are free for consumers.

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Workers Shouldn’t Have to Sign Away Their Rights to Class Action Lawsuits

Harvard Business

Hirschman argued that dissatisfaction with a product, service, relationship, or other outcome can give rise to two broad options: one can walk away (exit) or try to change the outcome by engagement (voice). A May 2018 Supreme Court decision in Epic Systems Corp. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Getty Images.