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A whopping 70 percent of Maltese cryptocurrency startups haven?t even requested VFA licensing process, signifying the demise of the ?Blockchain Island? origin »
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We’re coming to you live from day one of TNW 2019, our flagship conference in Amsterdam. Up next is Marsha Krouwel, Hearst Magazines’ publishing group director and Lead Scout and Advisory Board Member.
2019-5-9 16:34 | |
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By CCN. com: Thai startups raising funds by issuing digitized equities/stocks pay more taxes than an average business, according to Prinn Panitchpakdi. The governor of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) said initial coin offering (ICO) startups typically pay 7 percent in value-added (VAT) and a 20 percent in corporate tax.
2019-5-7 14:24 | |
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Can you remember what you were doing on New Year’s Day, 2018? Celebrating or perhaps nursing a hangover? What happened that day created a significant change in global recycling. China, the world’s largest scrap importer, stopped accepting recycled plastic, unsorted scrap paper and significantly reduced imported cardboard from abroad.
2019-4-23 15:56 | |
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Bitcoin‘s price might have risen lately, but blockchain startups are still reeling from the bite of the bear market. Sirin Labs, the firm behind the “world’s first blockchain phone” has confirmed 25 percent of its workforce has been let go.
2019-4-16 17:41 | |
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It’s recently been confirmed that female-led startup companies get just 10 percent of venture capital investment. And according to the report, it’s not just female leadership that puts investors off, it’s the mere presence of a woman — the report states that having a woman on the pitch team means you will get just a tenth of funding compared to those without.
2019-4-14 22:30 | |
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Successful startups don’t remain as one- or two-person operations running out of a home office forever. As demand for your product or service grows, so too will the need to scale your business.
2019-4-12 21:16 | |
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2019-4-1 16:00 | |
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By Marta Dawydzik and Andrea Hak In recent months when you heard about the UK there’s a 99 percent chance it was about Brexit (and a 1 percent chance it was about Theresa May’s painfully awkward dance moves).
2019-2-21 13:00 | |
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Although Finland has one of the lowest population densities in the EU, it’s responsible for 10 percent of global startup exits. We’ve also seen a number of international success stories, such as Nokia, Angry Birds, and Supercell, come out of Helsinki.
2019-2-19 12:00 | |
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Interest in token sales has dropped dramatically over the past 10 months, with investment falling almost 95 percent. Nevertheless, according to a new study, the ICO market is still significantly larger than two years ago.
2019-2-15 22:15 | |
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A country of never-ending sunsets, northern lights, and home to over 50 thousand islands and fjords, Norway has always been a haven for nature enthusiasts. But now it’s also becoming a haven for techies.
2019-2-13 12:00 | |
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With one of the lowest corporate taxes in Europe (only 12. 5 percent compared to Britain’s 23 percent and France’s 33. 3 percent) and laxer regulations, almost every major tech company has chosen Ireland as the site for their European headquarters.
2019-2-12 14:15 | |
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Startups fail for many reasons, and if you were to ask founders to tell you what they think is most responsible for startup failure you will most certainly get a diverse range of answers. However, when data on failed startups is crunched, data tends to agree that startups mainly fail due to market-related problems.
2018-12-30 23:38 | |
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Blockchain tech company ConsenSys is reportedly spinning out startups it previously supported, and could cut up to 60 percent of its staff
2018-12-21 05:05 | |
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Crypto legend, and Bitcoin permabull, and venture capitalist Tim Draper is now holding programs to help entrepreneurs build crypto startups at the Draper University. It’s long been debatable whether it’s worth earning a traditional college degree or not.
2018-12-20 04:00 | |
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A new study confirms the crypto industry has a lot of progress to make to bridge the gender gap. It shows that startups conducting ICOs are still markedly male-dominated – over 85 percent of the team members in the surveyed companies are men.
2018-12-13 19:35 | |
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At this point, gender inequality in tech is well documented. As it turns out, the blockchain industry is absolutely no different – there is a staggeringly disproportionate amount of males employed by the next wave of cryptocurrency companies.
2018-12-11 20:10 | |
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In a statement shared Thursday, ConsenSys announced that it is letting go 13 percent of its staff.
2018-12-7 21:33 | |
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Here’s an extraordinary fact about the 2018 bear market: business for Bitcoin-lawyers is booming. Forty-five lawsuits involving cryptocurrency were filed in the first half of this year, reports blockchain research unit Diar.
2018-11-20 14:11 | |
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The last-mile delivery apps servicing the $2 trillion USD e-commerce market are drawing global attention, notably those that deliver products, groceries, and restaurant-made meals on-demand. McKinsey reports that nearly 25 percent of consumers are willing to pay a significant premium for the privilege of instant or same-day delivery.
2018-11-19 21:30 | |
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Despite a prolonged cryptocurrency bear market and regulatory uncertainties, OKCoin, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, is expanding to Latin America launching a new exchange platform headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2018-11-15 17:45 | |
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The People's Bank of China (PBoC), China's central bank, has its eyes on cryptocurrency companies that run airdrop campaigns in the country. In its most recent financial stability report for 2018, which was published on Friday, November 3, 2018, the bank said there has been a surge in the number of "disguised" Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), including the free distribution of crypto tokens through airdrops, despite its effort to clamp down on their activities.
2018-11-5 22:04 | |
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The People's Bank of China (PBoC), China's central bank, has its eyes on cryptocurrency companies that run airdrop campaigns in the country. In its most recent financial stability report for 2018, which was published on Friday, November 3, 2018, the bank said there has been a surge in the number of "disguised" Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), including the free distribution of crypto tokens through airdrops, despite its effort to clamp down on their activities.
2018-11-7 22:04 | |
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Since the launch of eBay in 1995, Etsy in 2005, AirBnB in 2008, Uber 2010 and so many other game changing startups, digital marketplaces have fundamentally transformed the commerce landscape and will only continue to do so.
2018-10-19 18:43 | |
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Glassdoor Economic Research is delivering much needed good news to the crypto community saying that despite extreme price volatility and regulatory uncertainty, the number of crypto jobs in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector has risen by 300 percent since the same time last year.
2018-10-19 21:27 | |
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Some of the largest startups in South Korea with over 10 million users are turning to the blockchain. “Baedal Minjik,” a food delivery startup whose annual revenue surged 80 percent last year, and “Joonggonara,” a major used goods marketplace in South Korea, have shown interests in integrating the digital ledger technology.
2018-10-11 15:00 | |
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The latest crypto investment fund on the block is Dragonfly Ventures, a $100 million traditional venture fund investing only in crypto assets, managed by partners Alexander Pack from Bain Capital Ventures and Bo Feng, founding partner of Ceyuan Ventures.
2018-10-9 15:30 | |
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Global professional services firm PwC has partnered with decentralized lending platform Cred to boost trust in the cryptocurrency space and bring in more traders by advancing stablecoin technology.
2018-10-8 21:30 | |
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Global professional services firm PwC has partnered with decentralized lending platform Cred to boost trust in the cryptocurrency space and bring in more traders by advancing stablecoin technology.
2018-10-10 21:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency startup Circle is venturing deeper into crypto trading. The Boston-based company is now ready to buy equity crowdfunding firm SeedInvest. If approved by regulators, the move could allow Circle to help match investors with fledgling companies trying to raise money via initial coin offerings (ICOs).
2018-10-6 20:54 | |
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Traditional venture capitalist (VC) investments are leveraging the decline in initial coin offerings (ICO) as the cryptocurrency industry tries to find bearing amid regulatory shifts and losses across the crypto markets.
2018-10-3 19:39 | |
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Despite 70 percent of ICOs being worth less than they initially raised, venture capital (VC) firms are still ramping up blockchain investments. Already, traditional investors have sunk $3. 9 billion into new blockchain and cryptocurrency businesses in 2018.
2018-10-2 13:02 | |
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Paragon, the outfit which raised over $70 million in an ICO to build a “social network of cannabis startups,” has lost 96 percent of its market cap. Doing Nothing With Blockchain Perhaps the latest example of the “irrational exuberance” of the 2017 ICO rush, Paragon (PRG) , which had the backing of US rapper The Game and an infamous video to match, currently has a token market cap of just $2.
2018-9-20 04:00 | |
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Asian investors are becoming more involved in the US tech market due to the emergence of cryptocurrency and blockchain startups in need of funding outside the traditional American VC framework. Increasingly Dependent on Foreign Investments According to a 2017 study by the Wall Street Journal, Asian investors accounted for about 40 percent of the global venture financing.
2018-8-29 07:00 | |
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This month, we celebrate Ethereum’s third birthday and reflect upon the many milestones that have occured in the industry since the dawn of the original smart contract blockchain.
2018-8-15 21:53 | |
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The mythical fountain of youth. The tales of it appeared in writings by Herodotus, it was sought by the emperors of ancient China, for its sake alchemists spent years trying to create a philosopher's stone.
2018-8-7 12:30 | |
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Social media is a big business. Pew Research shows 68 percent of American adults are on Facebook alone, and 74 percent of those users access the platform daily. Mark Zuckerberg is worth over $67.
2018-8-6 00:40 | |
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The state of women-led startups in Europe has never seemed more open — but in many ways, it’s as dire as ever. A recent survey led by Women Who Tech found that 58 percent of women founders across Europe had experienced some form of harassment.
2018-8-1 15:31 | |
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The capital city of Jiangsu province, Nanjing has launched a $1.5 billion blockchain investment fund to boost the token economy and public blockchain projects in China. Despite its outlawing of many aspects of the cryptocurrency industry, blockchain technology has finally received the support of the government. Consequently, almost 41 percent of all Chinese startups that
2018-7-24 00:42 | |
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