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5 historic billboard campaigns (or everything old is new again)!

crowdSPRING Blog

Burma Shave highway signs (1925). Shoot the brute some… Burma-Shave! Through the power of this advertising tactic, Burma Shave would become the second highest selling brand of shaving cream on the market. Does your husband Misbehave? Grunt and grumble? Rant and rave? One last one, shall we?

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Entrepreneurs, Be Careful to Avoid Penny Stock Scams

The Startup Magazine

Mr. Walsh falsely claimed that Bre-X found a gold mine in Burma. The thought of investing in oil, gold and diamonds can be tempting. In the mid-1190s, the founder of Bre-X was David Walsh. This mining scam is one of the most famous mining scams. Speculation soon soared and many people invested in the company. billion.

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

I won’t bore you with the rest now, but there are fun stories of launching an online startup in NYC in 1997, learning to code (which indulged both my creative and analytical sides), parties (OK, one party) with Mick Jagger in London in 1995, a summer without plumbing traveling around Tanzania training women entrepreneurs (the opposite of said (..)

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the world without altgate

Altgate

of Congo Marshall Islands The Gambia Djibouti Mauritania Timor-Leste Dominica Mongolia, Rep.   You can see which page they left from but not where they went.    This feature is rumored to be in development but I couldn't get it even with the custom reporting.    Anyone have tips on this?

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8 Tips On Intercultural Communication And International Etiquette To Create Successful Business Relationships In Asia

YoungUpstarts

And since opening its borders to global trade in 2012, Myanmar, formerly Burma, is creating an extraordinary entrepreneurial environment owing to its “greenfield” advantage: a rare opportunity to build a fit-for-purpose economy to suit the modern world.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma. He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. We discussed how Burma is now the first “smartphone only” country in the world. I last went to Burma in 2007. In a year of fascinating conversations, a few stood out.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma. He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. We discussed how Burma is now the first “smartphone only” country in the world. I last went to Burma in 2007. In a year of fascinating conversations, a few stood out.

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