An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative.
Perhaps most interestingly, there are some potential new opportunities by which protocols might actually be much more sustainable. In the last few years, with the development of cryptocurrencies and tokens, it has become theoretically possible to build a protocol that uses a cryptocurrency or a token that has some value attached to it, with the... See more
Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio called the illusion of restaurant prosperity “smoke and mirrors” in a recent interview with The Daily Beast, and predicted that, as a result of the underlying precariousness, only 25% of restaurants in the U.S. will survive this crisis. He himself announced on March 14 that he was closing all of his restaurants in New... See more
Fast forward to today, eCommerce has made it possible for emerging brands with a niche product to achieve nationwide retail distribution at an accelerated rate.
All these things used to be separated into public media (like visual or print communications made by a small group of professionals) and personal media (like letters and phone calls made by ordinary citizens). Now those two modes have fused.