• September 23, 2023

‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Is Coming Due — for All of Us

Let’s role-play. It’s March 2021. You’re 23, a year out of college. Your last semester was ruined by the pandemic, but now you’ve got a job with a firm that’s “reinventing commerce” in a loft with reclaimed wood and catered lunches. Bars are open, your friends are coming back to the city, and your bank
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EY Announces Ian Aaron of Ubicquia as an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2022 Florida Award Finalist

Celebrating ambitious pioneers tackling our biggest challenges

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 12, 2022–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) today announced that Ian Aaron, CEO of Ubicquia was named an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2022 Florida Award finalist. Entrepreneur Of The Year is one of the preeminent competitive business awards for

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A conversation with Nader Al-Naji of BitClout – TechCrunch

Nader Al-Naji, a crypto entrepreneur who today lives in L.A., has been on a roller coaster in recent years — and he doesn’t pretend otherwise.

In 2018, roughly 16 months after raising $140 million from investors for a cryptocurrency startup that aimed to develop a stablecoin, Al-Naji and his Princeton classmates returned $130 million when

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Engineer, investor and entrepreneur was a natural problem-solver – GeekWire

Jonathan Burstein was most recently a principal engineer at Remitly. (Photo courtesy of Burstein family)

Jonathan Burstein, who co-founded voice technology startup Jargon and made a lasting impact at Seattle-area tech companies including Microsoft, Amazon, Zillow and Remitly, was an intuitive and empathetic engineer, angel investor and entrepreneur with a knack for generating creative

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Here’s what young entrepreneurs and investors think about crypto – GeekWire

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Crypto has gone mainstream.

Once an esoteric investment held by a select group of people on the internet, it’s now something many investors hold in their portfolio. The global cryptocurrency market size was valued at $1.7 billion in 2021 and is expected to reach $32.4 billion by 2027, according to some estimates.

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Not A Startup Founder? Be A Corporate Entrepreneur—Know The Four Types That Just Might Succeed

If you have ambitions to be an entrepreneur, but don’t have an idea for a startup or lack the risk-taking mindset that might be necessary, where do you go? You go to large corporations who actual need people like you to be creative and innovative, perhaps even

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Pre-trial hearing in Santa Cruz tech entrepreneur kidnapping-murder case enters third week – Silicon Valley

SANTA CRUZ — Testimony in a four-defendant pre-trial hearing for the killing of tech entrepreneur Tushar Atre was delayed Monday, the beginning of the case’s third week.

Based on testimony presented at the preliminary hearing, Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge John Salazar will determine if four accused defendants will or will not face

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Enduring Planet unwraps a new fintech platform – TechCrunch

Enduring Planet, a new fintech firm that exclusively funds climate entrepreneurs, is taking the wraps of its first product after securing $5 million in debt and equity financing.

The company aims to deliver fast debt capital to startups and small businesses that focus on climate, such as by mitigating emissions or helping humanity adapt

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TGC Collective – Global Citizenship Scholarship & Entrepreneur Grant 2022 (up to $1,000)


Deadline: June 1, 2022

Applications are invited for the TGC Collective – Global Citizenship Scholarship & Entrepreneur Grant 2022. The Global Citizenship Scholarship is designed for students who are planning to attend or are currently enrolled in a college/university, or a technical/vocational institution. The Global Citizen Scholarship Program is to assist students with the high

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Carl E. Greeley, a Baltimore-area grocery store entrepreneur, dies – Baltimore Sun

Carl E. Greeley, who began as a meat cutter but went on to own and operate the Geresbeck’s stores where he became the “shrimp king,” died of pneumonia May 17 at his home in Fallston. He was 92.

Born in Baltimore and raised on Valley Street in what was called the Tenth Ward near Green

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Kim Dotcom Says ‘US Is Beyond Bankrupt,’ Digital Entrepreneur Predicts a ‘Controlled Demolition of Global Markets’ – Economics Bitcoin News

On June 5, 2022, the entrepreneur and activist known as Kim Dotcom published a post on Twitter and said it “may be the most important thread” he ever makes concerning a major global collapse. In the thread, Dotcom specifically highlights the American economy and he claims the “U.S. is beyond bankrupt.” Dotcom also talked about

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Entrepreneur, 24, Buys £10k House And Increases Value By 550 Percent

A young property developer has revealed how he was able to buy a cut-price house and refurbish it to increase its value by a whopping £55,000 – having also shared some of his key tips to help others follow suit.

Jake Knotman, 24, started out in property when he was a teenager, having

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