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• The unemployment rate is quite low, even as millions of jobs are unfilled. Per the October Institute for Supply Management report on services: “Labor is still an issue, as it’s hard to find and get people who want to work, especially in services, trucking and warehouse fulfillment.”

-Payments (macro and micro): So long as cryptocurrencies require their users to have impeccable key management, blockchains can’t solve the peer-to-peer payments problem. Parallel to this, many economies are making big leaps forward in the ease of traditional payments. Look at Venmo in the U.S., M-Pesa in Africa, or AliPay and WeChat Pay in China. ... See more

I am certain that the model of employees working for multiple companies at the same time is here to stay and will grow over time. The only question for employers is whether they will lead or follow in this new model of work.

Of the world’s five most-valuable education startups, four are tutoring businesses

So angel investing is a category where people earn economic and social rewards for their curation, and also build their identity around it in the process. And yet angel investing is just one form of curation, so why not extend these benefits for other forms of curation?

One interesting thing I discovered was that Google Search Ads were not generally used as a primary strategy of any of the companies I looked into. After mulling on this, I think this largely has to do with the visual nature of these brands and how much importance is placed on getting those visuals across. Search ads also generally don’t get across ... See more