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☆ Silicon Valley's not-so-secret thing for turning everyone into millionaires is angel investing. Here's how they do it.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Once only for the superrich, angel investing is now open to anyone with a few thousand dollars. With an estimated 360,000 active angel investors, it's become a favorite pastime in Silicon Valley. "It felt like gambling," David Spreng, a veteran venture-debt investor who's been angel investing as a side hustle for more than a decade, said. He wrote his first angel check shortly thereafter, a $1,000 investment in an electric-aircraft maker. The currency of Silicon Valley"Your currency, for lack of a better term, in Silicon Valley is you either started a company or you angel invest, right?"

☆ Mark Cuban says baby boomers went from 'fighting the man to being everything that was hated in the 60s and 70s'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mark Cuban says baby boomers went from "fighting the man" to becoming what they'd hated in the 60s and 70s. Last week, the billionaire said on a podcast that he believes Gen-Z is the "greatest" generation. Cuban said Zoomers have a greater consideration for mental health and are changing the workplace. But for so many, to go from 'fighting the man' to being everything that was hated in the 60s and 70s is disappointing." But despite their economic success, baby boomers are about seven times more likely to share misinformation on social media, a 2019 study from researchers at Princeton and New York University found.

☆ Participă la concursul „Challenge MeOut” și materializează ideile tale creative
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-01 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

MeOut Group Ungaria organizează online un concurs de idei în perioada 23-25 aprilie, care este disponibil și pentru participanți din Republica Moldova! Aici tinerii vor putea ieși în evidență, învăța chestii noi, conecta cu oamenii și crea ceva interesant alături de mentorii echipei. Challenge MeOut este o competiție de idei creative organizată împreună cu MeOut Group pentru absolvenți și studenții care iubesc provocările. Așadar, participanții vor construi relații pe termen lung între ei și cine știe, poate vor fi deveni un prototip a tandemului Steve Jobs și Steve Wozniak. De asemenea, organizatorii spun că participanții vor beneficia de un premiu de aproape 2 000 de euro.

Persons: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak Organizations: MeOut, Challenge MeOut, Group Locations: MeOut Group Ungaria, Republica Moldova

☆ Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: Get off Facebook
▼ + stars: | 2019-07-09 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak recommends most people get off Facebook. "There are many different kinds of people, and [for] some, the benefits of Facebook are worth the loss of privacy," Wozniak told TMZ. Or Facebook and its competitors should give the option of privacy, suggested Wozniak. Wozniak tells TMZ. In April, 2018, Wozniak himself removed his Facebook account.

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