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What Every Bitcoin Investor Should Learn From a Dictator Named “Awesome”

Austin Startup

When he heard that Kublai was just printing his own money, he saw his path to riches and summoned the Ambassador from Kublai’s court, demanding to see the new paper currency. He demanded that everyone accept these new notes as currency. So smitten with this idea, Awesome copied the idea and printed his own money.

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Pyongyang, Vonnegut, and Depression

Feld Thoughts

North Korea has been on my mind lately (fathom that), although I had bought this book a few years ago after Eric Schmidt’s trip to in North Korea. In addition to being a delightful writer, Vonnegut was an in-demand and excellent public speaker. I started with Architectural and Cultural Guide Pyongyang.

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The Fascinating Aura of Mystery, Awe, and Power Surrounding A Business

Growthink Blog

Supply and demand. In other words, to suffer for just one week like the terribly poor, extraordinarily unfortunate and very marketplace mystique - deprived people of North Korea must unconsciously suffer through every day of their lives. And then come back and tell me that mystique doesn’t matter.

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Jennifer Lopez and the NDA

Growthink Blog

Supply and demand. In other words, to suffer for just one week like the terribly poor, extraordinarily unfortunate and very marketplace mystique - deprived people of North Korea must unconsciously suffer through every day of their lives. And then come back and tell me that mystique doesn’t matter.

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Foursquare? A Bakery?

Growthink Blog

The teapot dictators in Iran and North Korea may get all the ink, but it is the Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian technocrats with their quiet defense of free markets and trade that make hay.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. The problem is they don’t know how to be innovative in peacetime when innovation succumbs to the daily demands of execution.

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The Interview, Censorship, Terrorism, Dr. Evil, and Lots of Other Stuff

Feld Thoughts

North Korea says huh, what, wait, it wasn’t us and seeks a joint probe with US on Sony hack (yeah – like that is going to happen.) Let’s start with the FBI’s Update on Sony Investigation followed by Obama Vow[ing] a Response to Cyberattack on Sony. Now it starts getting really interesting.