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

Tom Spencer

Initial coin offerings (ICOs), the blockchain-based fundraising model involving the sale of cryptocurrency tokens in a new venture, have also grown exponentially with more than $5 billion raised through ICOs in 2017. The upright scooter was supposed to revolutionize transportation but all it did was make riders looks silly and self-satisfied.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

In the span of 9 years, the firm acquired more than 16 consulting companies in 5 different markets, including Australia, the United Kingdom, Asia, the United States and Latin America. Intellectual property. Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property. FTI began a new trend of rapid, global growth.

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How to Create Breakthrough Success without Burnout: Interview with Rachelle Stone

Consulting Matters

I had no sales funnel. And I had put together a website because I felt like I had to have one, but I considered it an online calling card. And I knew it wasn’t formatted correctly. It was – and anybody working within that industry I knew them like that. And it just flowed out of me. Betsy Jordyn : Yeah.

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Two Ways to Break into India’s Consumer Market

Harvard Business

While India is the fastest growing major economy in the world today, some foreign companies are still struggling to enter the market there. However, recent developments have opened new doors for consumer product companies to expand their presence and sales in India, at much lower risks. Drop product prices and boost volume growth.

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You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One

Harvard Business

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. The software, called Personal Book , allows Nordstrom to promote sales, special appearances, and store events in a more targeted manner.

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Why the WTO Should Constrain the Power of China’s State-Owned Enterprises

Harvard Business

Such state-owned enterprises or state-supported industries (SOEs) — think steel, aluminum and solar panels — have flooded global markets , depressed prices, and literally shut down hundreds of U.S. solar-panel startups. In a one-party state like China, the opportunities for unwritten understandings about such support are legion.

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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. For example, rules on services trade and intellectual property in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) led to WTO’s adoption of similar provisions.