Does Pokemon Go add new risks? In real life? Or in virtual life? The new location-based augmented reality mobile game that is taking the world by surprise certainly seems to generate a lot of opinions. We have read and heard many people saying that Pokemon Go adds new risks, but is it really so? And what risks? As usual people are quick to jump the gun and immediately make blanket statements about risk associated concepts. So we have dissected the…
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Predict business startups success example How to do it ORE applied to Startups development came up when we read examples of “archival analyses” on startups. Researchers used data mining to show that: board “age”, “gender”, “capital”, “IP” and finally “race” have insignificant effects (after 5 years) on either merger/acquisition rate OR survival of operations of startups. Those results left the authors of the research (Kaufmann Foundation) with the feeling that “something was missing” in this type of analyses. Those results…
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Doing a Risk Assessment on your business is great, but where should you stop? On March 4th 2015 a chemical fire fueled by trichloroisocyanuric acid from a container forced hundreds in Vancouver’s downtown core to stay indoors and triggered partial evacuation in the city. On April 8th 2015 Vancouver woke up with at least least 2,700 liters of “bunker fuel” spill in its bay. On April 16th a fire broke at Squamish Terminals deep-water port in B.C. Those three events…
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