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3 views: What does ‘Line Go Up’ tell us about the state of the NFT art market?

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He goes a bit further, essentially describing cryptocurrency as a scheme that creates more problems than it solves, is inherently inefficient, and allows early adopters to fleece later entrants until the system runs out of greater fools. Here’s where we ended up: Walter Thompson: NFTs are scarcely minimum viable products.

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MVP versus EVP: Is it time to introduce ethics into the agile startup model?

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The rocket ship trajectory of a startup is well known: Get an idea, build a team and slap together a minimum viable product (MVP) that you can get in front of users. And while this is a good practice for startups, it’s also a good standard practice for big technology companies building AI/ML products. Contributor.

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Global VC Flourish launches Madica, an Africa-focused program to back pre-seed stage startups

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Access to funding and lack of support systems are some of the greatest challenges faced by startup founders in sub-Saharan Africa. To qualify for the program, founders need to be working on their idea full-time, have a minimum viable product, and should have received little or no institutional funding.

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Leaning into Retail’s Challenges with Digital Transformation

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Home Depot , for example, is upgrading its wi-fi systems to make it easier for customers to design, visualize, and buy materials for their projects. But while these systems continue to work well for their certain purposes, they’re becoming increasingly ill equipped to handle the demands of a growing digital enterprise.

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Massdriver wants to abstract away infrastructure to let devs focus on coding

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Using Massdriver, customers choose from prebuilt infrastructure “bundles” that they can connect to create systems across regions or cloud providers with a visual tool. .” Image Credits: Massdriver. Recently, Massdriver — which is backed by Y Combinator — raised $4 million in seed funding. ”

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Z?m CEO Ritu Narayan explains why equity and accessibility works for mobility services

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But rarely have any entrepreneurs tackled the problem of updating and optimizing one of the nation’s largest legacy transit systems, now nearly a century old. “We had the minimum viable product, which we expanded upon, built the entire platform, and we kept on going to better places with our solutions.”

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Hustle Fund wants to help spawn a new generation of angel investors

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The firm has traditionally operated by investing $25,000 in a company, usually with a minimum-viable product, and then works with the team to help them grow. And we want to bring new people into this system.”. It does around 50 investments per year, according to its website. . It recently closed on $33.6