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Angel Investors: Startup Heroes You Never Knew

🦸‍♂️ 1. Introduction: The Unsung Heroes of the Startup World Each unicorn company you are envious of today—Zomato, Ola, Airbnb, and WhatsApp—took its origin much earlier than fame, funding rounds, and media reports.At that time, when the founders were presenting ideas from coffee shop stalls or garage workspaces, when the product was just a prototype—or […]

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The VC Illusion: What Venture Capital Really Is

Modern media treats venture capital as a fountain of instant riches and innovation-on-demand. Scratch the surface, though, and you’ll find a high-stakes, low-odds game whose glitzy wins hide a mountain of silent failures. This deep-dive explains how VC money really moves, who benefits, and why founders might be better off taking a different road. The

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Crypto Made Easy: India 2025 Legal & Investment Tip

What is Cryptocurrency? Let’s Keep It Simple đź‘¶ Consider having money that exists only on the internet and computers – that is cryptocurrency! You can imagine it like the money you hold in your online bank account, only much more powerful. Cryptocurrency is money that: The word cryptocurrency comes from “cryptography,” a way of encoding information to

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MicroStrategy: From Dot-Com Star to Bitcoin Leader

The extraordinary rise, fall, and rebirth of a company that dared to bet everything on Bitcoin 🚀 The Dream Begins: Two College Bros Who Thought They’d Conquer the World (1989-1998) In 1989, two ambitious MIT fraternity brothers, Michael Saylor and Sanju Bansal, founded MicroStrategy with a simple yet revolutionary vision: democratize business intelligence through powerful

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How Peter Thiel Made Billions Betting Against the Crowd

🧠 Peter Thiel: The Billionaire Who Bets Against the Crowd — And Wins There’s a certain type of billionaire who makes you feel like they’ve time-traveled from the future. Peter Thiel is one of them. While most VCs sprint after trends like greyhounds chasing a mechanical rabbit, Thiel is sitting back, watching the race with

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Inside SoftBank’s Vision Fund: Big Money, Big Risk

🧧 SoftBank’s Vision Fund: The $100 Billion Experiment That Burned Bright—and Then Just Burned 🚗 Let’s Begin with a Wild Thought Imagine you’re at a poker table. Now imagine you don’t just have chips — you have a mountain of them. Enough to raise the stakes at every hand, even if your cards are trash.

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Hedge Funds 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Big Finance

Introduction “You’ve probably heard of hedge funds in movies like The Big Short, but what are they really?” Imagine this: You’re scrolling through your news feed and you read a headline that reads, “Hedge Fund Makes $3 Billion on Tech Bet.” You pause, read it again, and wonder—what is even a hedge fund? Some mystical

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