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YouTube Documentary Series about the Swedish Startup Ecosystem by Gabe Savage

Posted by TomHavok on Sunday November 06, 2016 @11:35AM
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Tech journalist Gabe Savage travels to Sweden to try and find out why Stockholm is the #2 unicorn capital of the world. Several of the responses he gets whilst in New York is that they believe that this holds true because Sweden is a "socialist" country.Sweden is historically a social democratic country with liberal tendencies. Of late the legislation, taxes and other traditional socialist...

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Re:Another scam shakes trust in Indigogo on Saturday November 05, 2016 @02:31PM (#12881147)

Sadly it is no marketing shit. There is quite an uproar amongst backers, because Indigogo can't refund them... I'm not sayin' people aren't retarded, it was pretty clear that this BioRing stuff can't work. It was totally science-fiction.

Another scam shakes trust in Indigogo

Posted by TomHavok on Saturday November 05, 2016 @02:00PM
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Crowdfunding giant Indiegogo.com had to close down lately more campaigns due to Violation of their Terms of Use. The latest campaign that was shut down yesterday by Indiegogo's Trust & Safety Department raised funds for a fitness gadget called BioRing. After raising more than 800% of their initial goal ($509,918 in total) the team behind the project simply vanished, leaving 2184 backers...

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