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Why Entrepreneurs Outside the Margins Change the Status Quo

TechnologyMay 5, 20213KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Being the default feels splendid because *gestures everywhere* life is tailored to your comfort, taste and priorities. Technology, cosmetics, professional industries, and even government structures are created with an ‘average’ consumer/user in mind. Now, don’t get me wrong. Being the norm while recovering from laser eye surgery, for example, is a gift; but not so much when…

The Financial Industry Should Maximize Skin-In-The-Game To Discourage Bad Actors

TechnologyMay 5, 20212KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Since humanity’s early days in Mesopotamia, managing risk has been a necessary part of life. As I wrote in this previous post, Hammurabi’s Code was the first set of comprehensive rules for finance, so the concept of skin-in-the-game is nothing new. Rather, this concept has been watered down, and the once-level equilibrium is off-kilter. Author of “The…

7 FAQs About NFTs—And We’ve Got Answers

TechnologyMay 5, 20212KViews 0Likes 0Comments

WTF is an NFT? A non-fungible token. Fungible means different, whereas non-fungible means unique. Ergo, an NFT is a unique digital asset. These assets are the conduit for tokenizing items like artwork. How is an NFT the same as Bitcoin? They both run on blockchain. How is an NFT different from Bitcoin? Each NFT is as unique as a fingerprint, whereas…

It’s Up to Us to Decide: Is a Future of Leadership that is human a Moment or a Movement?

TechnologyFebruary 19, 20213KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Thank you Joy Johnson, President of Simon Fraser University and Andrew Gemino, Dean pro tem, Beedie School of Business for inviting me to be part of the award winning SFU Beedie Talks Alumni speaker series. And thank you Omar Sachedina, CTV News National Affairs Correspondent for being a terrific moderator. You kept me on my toes. The topic…

Robinhood Isn’t The Only Equity Investment Option Available To Eager New Traders

TechnologyJanuary 30, 20213KViews 0Likes 0Comments

We get it The Robinhood app is the latest innovation designed to democratize investing and usher first time traders into the fold. Co-founder Baiju Bhatt declared that Robinhood strives to offer “people that don’t have a lot of money the ability to get started” in the market, which in itself is a righteous intention, with a legacy dating back…

3 Ways Equity Crowdfunding Fosters Financial Dignity

TechnologyJanuary 30, 20213KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Financial literacy is a powerful vehicle to attain financial dignity. The literacy piece is the foundational knowledge necessary to make practical and educated financial decisions, but dignity is captured by the social contract within society. It is expensive to be poor, and the mental cost of poverty is taxing, not to mention that many financial factors are beyond…

Investing Vs MLM: We Are Not The Same

TechnologyJanuary 30, 20212KViews 0Likes 0Comments

The pandemic has drastically altered investment behavior, pushing plenty of fresh investors into the market, which observed a spike in stocks traded the week after stimulus checks were mailed to Americans. As unemployment rates continue climbing and no aid is forthcoming from the Feds, it’s understandable why some desperate people are turning to alternatives like MLMs (multi-level marketing),…

2020 Proved To Be An Inflection Point For Crowdfunding

TechnologyJanuary 30, 20212KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Put some respect on my name Santa wasn’t the only one working hard over the holidays. Our friends at Crowdfunding Capital Advisors crunched the 2020 numbers and wowzer . Not only did crowdfunding smash records this year, but it looks like it will serve as DigitalAMN’s launching pad for a record-breaking 2021. The financial fallout from the pandemic forced a…

Covid Ushered in a New Dawn of Entrepreneurship — and Crowdfunding Can Sustain It

TechnologyJanuary 30, 20212KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Will the real entrepreneurs, please stand up According to James Altucher’s New York Post essay, New York City is dead forever. Alrighty then. A former hedge-fund manager, Altucher arrived at this conclusion in large part by polling his investment banker friends and collectively lamenting a dearth of opportunities stretched across the horizon in front of him. Um…

How Groupthink Spectacularly Undermines Venture Capital

TechnologyJanuary 30, 20213KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Avoiding negative information won’t make shit disappear. Likewise, railroading people — particularly subordinates — into going against their good sense and better judgement, will not make a shitty idea, any less of a shitty idea. Take Enron, for example. Someone had to have known that ‘cooking the books’ was a terrible idea. But, oh… that’s…

Why Entrepreneurs Outside the Margins Change the Status Quo

The Financial Industry Should Maximize Skin-In-The-Game To Discourage Bad Actors

7 FAQs About NFTs—And We’ve Got Answers

It’s Up to Us to Decide: Is a Future of Leadership that is human a Moment or a Movement?

Robinhood Isn’t The Only Equity Investment Option Available To Eager New Traders

3 Ways Equity Crowdfunding Fosters Financial Dignity

Investing Vs MLM: We Are Not The Same

2020 Proved To Be An Inflection Point For Crowdfunding

Covid Ushered in a New Dawn of Entrepreneurship — and Crowdfunding Can Sustain It

How Groupthink Spectacularly Undermines Venture Capital

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