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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.

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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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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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How Regulation Could Help Cryptocurrencies Grow

Harvard Business Review

Ignorance may be bliss for some, but ask anyone in commerce or finance, and they will make it abundantly clear: Ignorance is risk. Without clear regulations, cryptocurrency innovation in the United States is being stifled. Entrepreneurs sit on the sidelines for fear of innocently running afoul of the law. Getty Images.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Challenged by other entrepreneurs in Scale Up Milwaukee’s Scalerator program to come up with a plan for rapidly ramping up his business, Cronce wondered: “What if I redefined Raphael as a strategic link in the global medical imaging supply chain, rather than as a paint shop? Innovate and invest, even when it hurts.

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Stop Talking About Social and Do It

Harvard Business Review

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma. Their organizational model lets them then fluidly reinvent what they create next, thus baking innovation in with their disruptive design. Everything.

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Why the U.S. Is Still Richer Than Every Other Large Country

Harvard Business Review

has a more developed system of equity finance than the countries of Europe, including angel investors willing to finance startups and a very active venture capital market that helps finance the growth of those firms. A decentralized political system in which states compete. World-class research universities.