Blockchain Network Valuation

Valuation approaches for distributed network-based companies  Roop Singh, Munir Tawfiq Traditional valuation methodologies are limited in valuing early-stage blockchain networks for the purposes of investment and deals activity. Valuation methods are used to attribute “value” to assets, technologies, intellectual property, brands, user bases, and resulting network effects, and any other tangible or intangible that can…

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Why blockchain companies fail?

A Blockchain Business Diagnostic Model Roop Singh, Dr. Nishant Dass, Dr. Al Tilooby, Justin Breen Why read this report Using a 32-point criteria for evaluating blockchain companies, this summary report  presents a diagnostic model to assess their success as well as challenges holistically. It identifies 25 companies which we researched, analyzed, and scored, to exemplify…

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Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble

By STEVEN JOHNSON JAN. 16, 2018 This article first appeared in New York Times Photo illustration by Delcan & Company. Balloons by Jenue & Laura Ortega. The sequence of words is meaningless: a random array strung together by an algorithm let loose in an English dictionary. What makes them valuable is that they’ve been generated…

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One country’s ban is another country’s boom

Chinese Exchanges Move Abroad in Search of Friendlier Regulation “In fact, recent reports indicate that many of these companies have begun the process of applying for licenses to operate in Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore, all of which are places where bitcoin trading and exchanges aren’t strictly regulated, and where the firms can…

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Blockchain – Why does it matter?

Blockchain is not merely yet another technology. Imagine being born in the time when a combustion engine was invented and railroads were mass adopted in the 1800s. It fundamentally transformed trade, commerce, transportation, travel, and war. It impacted how we as humans exchanged ideas, how we created people connections, what we bought, what we ate,…

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Is Innovation More About People or Process? – A HBR article

https://hbr.org/2015/02/is-innovation-more-about-people-or-process What’s more critical to producing a breakthrough innovation – finding creative people or finding creative ideas? This is a question Pixar head Ed Catmull has asked a great many people, and he says they tend to be pretty much split on it 50/50. This astonished Catmull. Fresh off eight blockbuster successes in a row…

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Seeing the Cube

Client: “So we’ll have yet another document. What’s the point?” Have you ever had someone on the client side question the value of “documenting” the process?  It’s a valid question; what is the point of creating yet another document that is bound to get outdated (and join a million other outdated documents), soon after we…

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Forrester Research: Optimize Your Business Process Excellence Program To Meet Shifting Priorities

Business process management (BPM) initiatives frequently start with a tactical process improvement charter, but they get pushed to play a more strategic role across the enterprise — often being tapped to help transform customer-facing business processes and increase operational agility. Unfortunately, many teams miss out on this opportunity to play a wider role because they failed…

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